SEO Metrics <= 1.0.15 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

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8.8
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-6754
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published August 1, 2025
Last Updated September 5, 2025
Researcher kr0d

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.

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Vulnerability Details for SEO Metrics

SEO Metrics

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug seo-metrics-helper (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.0.16, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.15
Patched Version
  • 1.0.16

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