CVE-2025-12847

Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-11-06 | Published 2025-11-15 | Updated 2025-11-17 | Assigner Wordfence

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Timeline

Credits

Angus Girvan finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-903b-45a9-8cde-1bf8fd5d7d44?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...s/4.8.9/app/Common/Api/Api.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...gs/4.8.9/app/Common/Api/Ai.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/.../4.8.9/app/Common/Ai/Image.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/....9/app/Common/Utils/Access.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...seo-pack&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

cve.org (CVE-2025-12847)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-12847)

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