CVE-2025-12847 (GCVE-0-2025-12847)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-15 05:45 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:33
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic <= 4.8.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Media Deletion
Summary
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.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-17 18:42 UTC
CWE
- CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| smub | All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 4.8.9
(semver)
|
guessed |
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