Company: VRCA
Filing Date: 2025-05-13
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001193125-25-118881
Chunk: 4

Company: Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-13
Form: S-8
Chunk 4
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 this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of West Chester, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on this 13 thday of May, 2025.

| VERRICA PHARMACEUTICALS INC. |     |                                       |
| By:                          |     | /s/ Jayson Rieger                     |
|                              |     | Jayson Rieger                         |
|                              |     | President and Chief Executive Officer |

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POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Jayson Rieger, John J. Kirby and David Zawitz, and each or any one of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-factand agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-factand agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-factand agents, or any of them, or their or his substitutes or substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

| Signature                
 /s/ Jayson Rieger        
 Jayson Rieger            
 /s/ John J. Kirby        
 John J. Kirby            |     | Title                                           
 President, Chief Executive Officer and Director 
 (Principal Executive Officer)                   
 Interim Chief Financial Officer                 
 (Interim Principal Financial Officer and        
 Interim Principal Accounting Officer)           |     | Date         
 May 13, 2025 
 May 13, 2025 |
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| /s/ Paul B. Manning      
 Paul B. Manning          |     | Director                                        |     | May 13, 2025 |
| /s/