Detections
Analytics
CVE-2025-6754
high
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’s capabilities, a subscriber-level user can retrieve the token and then access the custom endpoint to obtain full administrator cookies.
References
https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-metrics-helper/#developers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/welcome-page.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/seo-metrics.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/endpoint.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-metrics-helper/trunk/common-functions.php