CVE Alert: CVE-2025-6754
Vulnerability Summary: 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 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.
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
8/2/2025, 8:15:26 AM
🔥 CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedEPS Score: 0.0005 | Ranking EPS: 0.15278
References:
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/common-functions.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/endpoint.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/seo-metrics.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/welcome-page.php
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-metrics-helper/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/48658b33-ae53-4919-8180-1188f72553f7?source=cve
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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