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CVE-2025-9334: Better Find and Replace <= 1.7.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Code Injection

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-08 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Limited Code Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.7. This is due to insufficient input validation and restriction on the 'rtafar_ajax' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to call arbitrary plugin functions and execute code within those functions.

Affected products

• codesolz Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions: through 1.7.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-time-auto-find-and-replace/trunk/core/actions/RTAFAR_CustomAjax.php#L29
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-time-auto-find-and-replace/trunk/core/admin/functions/DbReplacer.php#L507
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-time-auto-find-and-replace/trunk/core/lib/Util.php#L233
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3389979/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/232f3a15-3bd3-44fa-aa07-f055e8fcda88?source=cve

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