CVE-2025-12814: medium-severity vulnerability in softaculous SiteSEO – SEO Simplified
SiteSEO – SEO Simplified <= 1.3.2 - Improper Authorization to Authenticated Settings Reset
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 0.3%
The SiteSEO – SEO Simplified plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to n incorrect capability check on the siteseo_reset_settings function in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, who have been granted access to at least on SiteSEO setting capability, to reset the plugin's settings.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected products
softaculous · SiteSEO – SEO SimplifiedRelated CVEs — softaculous SiteSEO – SEO Simplified
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2025-13085MEDIUMSiteSEO – SEO Simplified <= 1.3.2 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Sensitive Post Meta DisclosureEPSS 0.3%CVE-2025-12367MEDIUMSiteSEO – SEO Simplified <= 1.3.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Author+) Plugin Settings UpdateEPSS 0.2%CVE-2025-9277MEDIUMSiteSEO – SEO Simplified <= 1.2.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Broken Regex ExpressionEPSS 0.2%
References
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/siteseo/tags/1.3.2/main/ajax.php#L90https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3397272%40siteseo&new=3397272%40siteseo&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a376cafb-656c-4fe1-b5c1-c7e38dc5040e?source=cve