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
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 9 days later
· 9 days later
Published
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.25% · top 83% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
References (6)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/05abc09f-903b-45a9-8cde-1bf8fd5d7d44?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Api/Api.php#L192 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Api/Ai.php#L542 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Ai/Image.php#L192 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Utils/Access.php#L184 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3393820%40all-in-one-seo-pack&old=3384131%40all-in-one-seo-pack&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file1387 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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