CVE-2025-12847 json
All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic <= 4.8.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Media Deletion
published 11mo ago modified last mo. also EUVD-2025-197686
- cvss
- 4.3
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.3%
- EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
The All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary media attachment deletion due to a missing authorization check in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.9. This is due to the REST API endpoint `/wp-json/aioseo/v1/ai/image-generator` only verifying that users have the `edit_posts` capability (Contributors and above) without checking if they own or have permission to delete the specific media attachments. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to permanently delete arbitrary media attachments by ID via the REST API, granted they can determine valid attachment IDs.
Patch / fix
- aioseo all_in_one_seo 4.9.0
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- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 11mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
Affected products
- smub All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Technology feeds
References
- wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/05abc09f-903b-45a9-8cde-1bf8fd5d7d44?source=cve
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Api/Api.php#L192
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Api/Ai.php#L542
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Ai/Image.php#L192
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Utils/Access.php#L184
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3393820%40all-in-one-seo-pack&old=3384131%40all-in-one-seo-pack
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-12847
- NVD CVE-2025-12847
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