{"id":"CVE-2025-12847","aliases":["EUVD-2025-197686","GHSA-w6hx-92x2-67r3"],"status":"published","title":"All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings \u0026 Increase Traffic \u003c= 4.8.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Media Deletion","description":"The All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings \u0026 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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":4.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00252,"percentile":0.16852,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-862"],"published":"2025-11-15T05:45:32Z","modified":"2026-10-07T21:10:00Z","products":[{"vendor":"smub","product":"all in one seo – powerful seo plugin to boost seo rankings \u0026 increase traffic"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/05abc09f-903b-45a9-8cde-1bf8fd5d7d44?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Api/Api.php#L192"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Api/Ai.php#L542"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Ai/Image.php#L192"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Utils/Access.php#L184"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=\u0026reponame=\u0026new=3393820%40all-in-one-seo-pack\u0026old=3384131%40all-in-one-seo-pack\u0026sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=#file1387"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12847"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w6hx-92x2-67r3"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2025-12847","title":"All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings \u0026 Increase Traffic \u003c= 4.8.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Media Deletion","description":"The All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings \u0026 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.","status":"published","published":"2025-11-15T05:45:32.963Z","modified":"2026-04-08T16:33:27.132Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":4.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:32:41.743125Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2025-197686","description":"The All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings \u0026 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.","status":"published","published":"2025-11-15T05:45:32Z","modified":"2026-04-08T16:33:27Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":4.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T19:25:11.239745Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-w6hx-92x2-67r3","title":"The All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings \u0026 Increase Traffic plugin for...","description":"The All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings \u0026 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.","status":"published","published":"2025-11-15T06:30:15Z","modified":"2025-11-15T06:30:21Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":4.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:04:49.684595Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2025-12847","description":"The All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings \u0026 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. 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