CVE-2025-14438: Xagio SEO <= 7.1.0.30 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Server-Side Request Forgery

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2026-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-918

Description

The Xagio SEO – AI Powered SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 7.1.0.30 via the 'pixabayDownloadImage' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

Affected products

Xagio SEO – AI Powered SEO: through 7.1.0.30

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/xagio-seo/tags/7.1.0.29/inc/xagio_core.php#L236
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/xagio-seo/tags/7.1.0.29/modules/seo/models/xagio_tinymce.php#L135
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/xagio-seo/tags/7.1.0.29/modules/seo/models/xagio_tinymce.php#L91
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3426300/xagio-seo#file374
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72779dd2-04eb-445d-88a0-28a9c4d2369b?source=cve

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