CVE-2025-6754 (GCVE-0-2025-6754)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-02 07:24 – Updated: 2025-08-04 14:12
VLAI?
Title
SEO Metrics <= 1.0.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
Summary
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 versions 1.0.5 through 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.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
seometricsplugin SEO Metrics Affected: * , ≤ 1.0.5 (semver)
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Credits
Kenneth Dunn
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