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CVE-2025-12360: Better Find and Replace <= 1.7.7 - Missing Authorization

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-06 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-285

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.

Affected products

• codesolz Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions: through 1.7.7

References

• 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
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/757e41dd-d72f-4e87-a087-c5c38bd727e5?source=cve

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