CVE-2025-6754 Information

Aug 03, 2025 cve

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 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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8

CNNVD-202508-127 (Published: 2025-08-02)

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