CVE-2025-12360
Better Find and Replace <= 1.7.7 - Missing Authorization
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.3 Medium
- Published
- Nov 6, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Oct 27, 2025
Description
The Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized API usage due to a missing capability check on the rtafar_ajax() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access, to trigger OpenAI API key usage resulting in quota consumption potentially incurring cost.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.3 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-285 Improper Authorization
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestionscodesolz |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/757e41dd-d72f-4e87-a087-c5c38bd727e5?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-time-auto-find-and-replace/trunk/core/actions/RTAFAR_CustomAjax.php#L31
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3389979/real-time-auto-find-and-replace/trunk/core/actions/RTAFAR_CustomAjax.php?contextall=1&old=3343531&old_path=%2Freal-time-auto-find-and-replace%2Ftrunk%2Fcore%2Factions%2FRTAFAR_CustomAjax.php
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