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CVE-2025-6754: SEO Metrics <= 1.0.15 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

• 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: 2025-08-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The SEO Metrics plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to missing authorization checks in both the seo_metrics_handle_connect_button_click() AJAX handler and the seo_metrics_handle_custom_endpoint() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.15. Because the AJAX action only verifies a nonce, without checking the caller’s capabilities, a subscriber-level user can retrieve the token and then access the custom endpoint to obtain full administrator cookies.

Affected products

• seometricsplugin SEO Metrics: through 1.0.15

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/common-functions.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/endpoint.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/seo-metrics.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/welcome-page.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3343566%40seo-metrics-helper&new=3343566%40seo-metrics-helper
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-metrics-helper/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/48658b33-ae53-4919-8180-1188f72553f7?source=cve

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