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CVE-2025-7652: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2025-7652 affects the Easy Plugin Stats plugin for WordPress in versions up to and including 2.0.1. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on October 10, 2025, and was published to the NVD database on October 11, 2025 (NVD, Wordfence).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue that exists in the plugin's 'eps' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an affected page, potentially leading to unauthorized actions and data exposure (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The plugin has been permanently closed as of August 15, 2025, and is no longer available for download. Users are advised to remove the plugin from their WordPress installations (WordPress).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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