CVE-2025-12847

All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic <= 4.8.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Media Deletion

mediumMissing Authorization
4.3
CVSS Score
4.3
CVSS Score
medium
Severity
4.9.0
Patched in
1d
Time to patch

Description

The All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary media attachment deletion due to a missing authorization check in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.9. This is due to the REST API endpoint `/wp-json/aioseo/v1/ai/image-generator` only verifying that users have the `edit_posts` capability (Contributors and above) without checking if they own or have permission to delete the specific media attachments. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to permanently delete arbitrary media attachments by ID via the REST API, granted they can determine valid attachment IDs.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=4.8.9
PublishedNovember 14, 2025
Last updatedNovember 15, 2025
Affected pluginall-in-one-seo-pack

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