WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO < 12.4.17 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Privileged Cloud API Operations
Description
The SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 12.4.16. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to invoke privileged state-changing Squirrly cloud API operations, such as revoking the site's Google Search Console and Google Analytics integrations via `api/gsc/revoke` and `api/ga/revoke`, that are otherwise restricted to administrator-level users holding the `sq_manage_settings` capability.
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Classification
Type
NO AUTHORISATION
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Abi Wiranata
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-06-05 (about 4 months ago)
Added
2026-06-05 (about 4 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-06-06 (about 4 months ago)