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CVE-2025-14386: Search Atlas SEO – Premier SEO Plugin for One-Click WP Publishing & Integrated AI Optimization 2.4.4 - 2.5.12 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Authentication Bypass via Account Takeover

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-01-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Search Atlas SEO – Premier SEO Plugin for One-Click WP Publishing & Integrated AI Optimization plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass due to a missing capability check on the 'generate_sso_url' and 'validate_sso_token' functions in versions 2.4.4 to 2.5.12. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to extract the 'nonce_token' authentication value to log in to the first Administrator's account.

Affected products

• shahrukhlinkgraph Search Atlas SEO – Premier SEO Plugin for One-Click WP Publishing & Integrated AI Optimization: from 2.4.4 through 2.5.12

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/metasync/tags/2.5.12/admin/class-metasync-admin.php#L1042
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/metasync/tags/2.5.12/admin/class-metasync-admin.php#L1141
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/metasync/tags/2.5.12/admin/class-metasync-admin.php#L851
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f63d2c4-cbae-4177-8494-daca96449ecc?source=cve

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