CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-6754
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-08-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
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.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/common-functions.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/endpoint.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/seo-metrics.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/welcome-page.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3343566%40seo-metrics-helper&new=3343566%40seo-metrics-helper plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-metrics-helper/#developers wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/48658b33-ae53-4919-8180-1188f72553f7?source=cve www.wordfence.com