Alt Text Generator AI – Auto Generate & Bulk Update Alt Texts For Images <= 1.8.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) API Key Deletion
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.8.4
- Affected Version
<= 1.8.3- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2025-12113
At a glance
CVE-2025-12113 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Alt Text Generator AI WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.8.3. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.8.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2025, reported by Legion Hunter.
Vulnerability Overview
The Alt Text Generator AI – Auto Generate & Bulk Update Alt Texts For Images plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the atgai_delete_api_key() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete the API key connected to the site.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Alt Text Generator AI <= 1.8.3 carries this weakness at atgai_delete_api_key(), and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Alt Text Generator AI the fix is 1.8.4: builds <= 1.8.3 are affected, anything from 1.8.4 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.8.4, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Alt Text Generator AI 1.8.4 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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