CVE-2025-6754 – “WordPress SEO Metrics Privilege Escalation”

CVE ID : CVE-2025-6754

Published : Aug. 2, 2025, 8:15 a.m. | 1 hour, 23 minutes ago

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.

Severity: 8.8 | HIGH

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