CVE-2025-49401

WordPress smart SEO Plugin <= 4.0 - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Sep 5, 2025
Updated
Apr 28, 2026
Reserved
Jun 4, 2025

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Description

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in axiomthemes smart SEO smartSEO allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects smart SEO: from n/a through <= 4.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HPatchstack

Weaknesses

  • CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Affected Products

ProductVersions
smart SEOaxiomthemes
  • 4.0 and earlierAffected

References

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