WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

All in One SEO < 4.9.0 - Contributor+ Arbitrary Media Deletion

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary media attachment deletion due to a missing authorization check. 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.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 4.9.0

References

Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
shark3y
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2025-11-14 (about 5 months ago)
Added
2025-11-14 (about 5 months ago)
Last Updated
2025-11-14 (about 5 months ago)

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