CVE-2025-12847 PUBLISHED

All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic <= 4.8.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Media Deletion

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 06.11.2025 Published: 15.11.2025 Updated: 17.11.2025

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.3

Product Status

Vendor smub
Product All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from * to 4.8.9 (incl.)

Credits

  • Angus Girvan finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization CWE