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CVE-2025-12814: SiteSEO – SEO Simplified <= 1.3.2 - Improper Authorization to Authenticated Settings Reset

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-19 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-285

Description

The SiteSEO – SEO Simplified plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to n incorrect capability check on the siteseo_reset_settings function in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, who have been granted access to at least on SiteSEO setting capability, to reset the plugin's settings.

Affected products

• softaculous SiteSEO – SEO Simplified: through 1.3.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/siteseo/tags/1.3.2/main/ajax.php#L90
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3397272%40siteseo&new=3397272%40siteseo&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a376cafb-656c-4fe1-b5c1-c7e38dc5040e?source=cve

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