SiteSEO – SEO Simplified <= 1.3.2 - Improper Authorization to Authenticated Settings Reset
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.3.3
- Affected Plugin
- SiteSEO – SEO Simplified
- Affected Version
<= 1.3.2- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-285 · Improper Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2025-12814
At a glance
CVE-2025-12814 is a medium-severity Improper Authorization vulnerability in the SiteSEO WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.3.2. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.3.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2025, reported by Supakiad S. (m3ez) (m3ez).
Vulnerability Overview
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.
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 privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-285: Improper Authorization
Reaching this weakness in SiteSEO <= 1.3.2 takes any authenticated account. Improper authorization means a permission check exists but does not cover the case being exercised, so a caller who is allowed to do one thing is allowed to do a neighbouring thing as well.
A lower-privileged account performs an action reserved for a higher one, which on a multi-author or membership site means an ordinary user reaching administrative behaviour. For SiteSEO the fix is 1.3.3: builds <= 1.3.2 are affected, anything from 1.3.3 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.3.3, 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: SiteSEO 1.3.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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