CVE-2025-14342: SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO <= 12.4.14 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Cloud Service Disconnection

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-862

Description

The SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the sq_ajax_uninstall function in all versions up to, and including, 12.4.14. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to disconnect the site from Squirrly's cloud service.

Affected products

SEO Squirrly SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO: through 12.4.14

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/squirrly-seo/tags/12.4.14/controllers/SeoSettings.php#L616
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3435711/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7ad25948-3265-4c4c-9b99-86f7240600ce?source=cve

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