CVE Explorer
CVE-2025-6754
The SEO Metrics plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to missing authorization checks in both the seo_metrics_handle_connect_button_click() AJAX handler and the seo_metrics_handle_custom_endpoint() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.15. Because the AJAX action only verifies a nonce, without checking the caller’s capabilities, a subscriber-level user can retrieve the token and then access the custom endpoint to obtain full administrator cookies.
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"SEO Metrics","vendor":"seometricsplugin","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"1.0.15","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5affectedurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4164f4e7b84cda24851540570e35d1b51a6ebba79cfdd0c51f9d15c59d7ddcc2 · sha256:1f28dd9fa1ae471d… · /containers/cna/affected/0
Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"baseScore":8.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cvssurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4164f4e7b84cda24851540570e35d1b51a6ebba79cfdd0c51f9d15c59d7ddcc2 · sha256:1f28dd9fa1ae471d… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1
CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-862","description":"CWE-862 Missing Authorization","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cweurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4164f4e7b84cda24851540570e35d1b51a6ebba79cfdd0c51f9d15c59d7ddcc2 · sha256:1f28dd9fa1ae471d… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
Source references
7 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/common-functions.php"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4164f4e7b84cda24851540570e35d1b51a6ebba79cfdd0c51f9d15c59d7ddcc2 · sha256:1f28dd9fa1ae471d… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/endpoint.php"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4164f4e7b84cda24851540570e35d1b51a6ebba79cfdd0c51f9d15c59d7ddcc2 · sha256:1f28dd9fa1ae471d… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/seo-metrics.php"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4164f4e7b84cda24851540570e35d1b51a6ebba79cfdd0c51f9d15c59d7ddcc2 · sha256:1f28dd9fa1ae471d… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/welcome-page.php"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4164f4e7b84cda24851540570e35d1b51a6ebba79cfdd0c51f9d15c59d7ddcc2 · sha256:1f28dd9fa1ae471d… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3343566%40seo-metrics-helper&new=3343566%40seo-metrics-helper"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4164f4e7b84cda24851540570e35d1b51a6ebba79cfdd0c51f9d15c59d7ddcc2 · sha256:1f28dd9fa1ae471d… · /containers/cna/references/6
{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-metrics-helper/#developers"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4164f4e7b84cda24851540570e35d1b51a6ebba79cfdd0c51f9d15c59d7ddcc2 · sha256:1f28dd9fa1ae471d… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/48658b33-ae53-4919-8180-1188f72553f7?source=cve"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4164f4e7b84cda24851540570e35d1b51a6ebba79cfdd0c51f9d15c59d7ddcc2 · sha256:1f28dd9fa1ae471d… · /containers/cna/references/0
Attribution and limitations
- CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →
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