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CVE-2025-12884: Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense <= 2.0.14 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Ad Placements Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2026-02-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in versions up to, and including, 2.0.14. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action in the `placement_update_item()` function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update ad placements, allowing them to change which ad or ad group a placement serves.

Affected products

• monetizemore Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense: through 2.0.14

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-ads/tags/2.0.13/includes/admin/class-ajax.php#L886-L932
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3427297
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a1ad32fb-929e-4181-8789-df50a77a71ef?source=cve

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