Medium severity · published Nov 15, 2025
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
4.3
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 17% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AI
All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic · smub
through 4.8.9 · source: vendor
Affected product
AI
All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic
smub
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12847
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12847
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Ai/Image.php#L192
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Api/Ai.php#L542
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Api/Api.php#L192
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/4.8.9/app/Common/Utils/Access.php#L184
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
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
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/05abc09f-903b-45a9-8cde-1bf8fd5d7d44?source=cve
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