All In One SEO < 4.1.5.3 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation
CVE-2021-25036
8.8HIGH
Key Information:
- Vendor
- Wordpress
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 17 January 2022
Summary
The All in One SEO WordPress plugin before 4.1.5.3 is affected by a Privilege Escalation issue, which was discovered during an internal audit by the Jetpack Scan team, and may grant bad actors access to protected REST API endpoints they shouldn’t have access to. This could ultimately enable users with low-privileged accounts, like subscribers, to perform remote code execution on affected sites.
Affected Version(s)
All in One SEO – Best WordPress SEO Plugin – Easily Improve SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic 4.1.3.1 < 4.1.3.1*
All in One SEO – Best WordPress SEO Plugin – Easily Improve SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic 4.1.5.3
References
CVSS V3.1
Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged
Timeline
Vulnerability published
Vulnerability Reserved
Credit
Marc Montpas (Jetpack Scan)