Search Atlas SEO – Premier SEO Plugin for One-Click WP Publishing & Integrated AI Optimization 2.4.4 - 2.5.15 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Authentication Bypass via Account Takeover

8.8
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-14386
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published January 27, 2026
Last Updated April 9, 2026
Researcher kr0d

Description

The Search Atlas SEO – Premier SEO Plugin for One-Click WP Publishing & Integrated AI Optimization plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass due to a missing capability check on the 'generate_sso_url' and 'validate_sso_token' functions in versions 2.4.4 to 2.5.15. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to extract the 'nonce_token' authentication value to log in to the first Administrator's account.

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Vulnerability Details for Search Atlas SEO – OTTO AI SEO Automation for WordPress

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug metasync (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.5.16, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • 2.4.4 - 2.5.15
Patched Version
  • 2.5.16

Recent vulnerabilities in Search Atlas SEO – OTTO AI SEO Automation for WordPress

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Search Atlas SEO – OTTO AI SEO Automation for WordPress < 2.6.24 - Missing Authorization CVE-2026-15247 4.3 Shivamani Vastrala September 5, 2026
2 Search Atlas SEO – Premier SEO Plugin for One-Click WP Publishing & Integrated AI Optimization < 2.6.12 - Missing Authorization CVE-2026-15252 4.3 LevinityCyber July 30, 2026
3 Search Atlas SEO – Premier SEO Plugin for One-Click WP Publishing & Integrated AI Optimization <= 2.6.6 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2026-57357 6.1 Evan NR July 1, 2026
4 Search Atlas SEO <= 2.5.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2025-58019 6.4 zaim September 22, 2025
5 Search Atlas SEO <= 1.8.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-47387 4.4 Robert DeVore September 30, 2024

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