SEO Metrics <= 1.0.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation_CVE-2025-6754

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    "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 versions 1.0.5 through 1.0.15. Because the AJAX action only verifies a nonce, without checking the caller\u2019s capabilities, a subscriber-level user can retrieve the token and then access the custom endpoint to obtain full administrator cookies.",
    "published": "2025-08-02T07:24:20.355Z",
    "modified": "2025-08-04T14:12:45.211Z",
    "type": "cve",
    "title": "SEO Metrics <= 1.0.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation",
    "source": "Wordfence",
    "references": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/48658b33-ae53-4919-8180-1188f72553f7?source=cve\nhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-metrics-helper/#developers\nhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/endpoint.php\nhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/common-functions.php\nhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/seo-metrics.php\nhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/welcome-page.php",
    "id": "CVE-2025-6754",
    "bulletinFamily": "",
    "cwe": [
        "CWE-862"
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    "cvelist": null,
    "sourceData": "seometricsplugin SEO Metrics *",
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    "cvss": {
        "score": 8.8,
        "severity": "HIGH",
        "vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
        "version": "3.1"
    },
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    "href": "",
    "category_name": "CVE",
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    "product": "SEO Metrics",
    "version": "*",
    "vendor": "seometricsplugin",
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