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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 all versions up to, and including, 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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-06-26 | Published 2025-08-02 | Updated 2026-04-08 | Assigner Wordfence




HIGH: 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version
affected

Timeline

2025-08-01:Disclosed

Credits

Kenneth Dunn finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-ae53-4919-8180-1188f72553f7?source=cve

wordpress.org/plugins/seo-metrics-helper/

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...rics-helper/trunk/endpoint.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...per/trunk/common-functions.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...s-helper/trunk/seo-metrics.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...-helper/trunk/welcome-page.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...w=3343566%40seo-metrics-helper

cve.org (CVE-2025-6754)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-6754)

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