GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO <= 12.4.16 - Missing Authorization

5.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2026-52714
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published June 15, 2026
Last Updated June 23, 2026
Researcher Nguyen Ba Khanh

Description

The GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in versions up to, and including, 12.4.16. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.

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Vulnerability Details for GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug squirrly-seo (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 12.4.17, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 12.4.16
Patched Version
  • 12.4.17

Recent vulnerabilities in GEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO <= 14.0.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Creation and Stored Cross-Site Scripting via savePost() CVE-2026-1667 7.2 Osvaldo Noe Gonzalez Del Rio (Os) July 10, 2026
2 SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO <= 12.4.16 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Privileged Cloud API Operations CVE-2026-7624 4.3 Abi Wiranata June 5, 2026
3 SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO <= 12.4.14 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Cloud Service Disconnection CVE-2025-14342 4.3 Marcin Dudek (dudekmar) February 18, 2026
4 SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO <= 12.4.03 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection CVE-2025-22783 6.5 Webula March 27, 2025
5 SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO <= 12.4.05 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via search Parameter CVE-2025-1768 6.5 Muhamad Visat March 6, 2025
6 SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO <= 12.4.07 - Missing Authorization CVE-2025-24654 4.3 Rafie Muhammad March 3, 2025
7 SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO <= 12.3.20 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-10515 4.4 Dmitrii Ignatyev October 30, 2024
8 SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO <= 12.3.19 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via url Parameter CVE-2024-6497 8.8 bart July 19, 2024
9 SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO <= 12.3.16 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-29790 6.1 Rafie Muhammad March 25, 2024
10 SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO <= 12.3.15 - Authenticated(Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via plugin settings CVE-2024-0597 4.4 Akbar Kustirama January 29, 2024

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