In 4stats plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 2.0.9 a medium severity vulnerability CVE-2025-3869 was detected. This Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, caused by missing or incorrect nonce validation on the stats/stats.php page, allows unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request if they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking a link. Currently, there is no fix version for this issue. For more details, visit https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3869.
WordPress: CSRF Leading to Settings Manipulation and XSS in 4stats Plugin
by the Hossted team
27.05.2025