CVE-2025-12367

Published: Nov 1, 2025Modified: Nov 4, 2025

4.3

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 1.4

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

Description

The SiteSEO – SEO Simplified plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in versions up to, and including, 1.3.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to enable or disable arbitrary SiteSEO features that they should not have access to.

Related CWEs

CWE-285

Improper Authorization

The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

References (3)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/siteseo/tags/1.3.1/main/ajax.php#L340

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3387094/siteseo/trunk/main/ajax.php?contextall=1

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/54535bef-23c3-4045-bb37-ba28ae5461b1?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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