CVE-2025-12847
All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic <= 4.8.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Media Deletion
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.3 Medium
- Published
- Nov 15, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Nov 6, 2025
Description
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.
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-862 Missing Authorization
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Trafficsmub |
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References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/05abc09f-903b-45a9-8cde-1bf8fd5d7d44?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Api/Api.php#L192
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Api/Ai.php#L542
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Ai/Image.php#L192
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Utils/Access.php#L184
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3393820%40all-in-one-seo-pack&old=3384131%40all-in-one-seo-pack&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file1387
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