CVE-2021-25036 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2021-25036

All In One SEO < 4.1.5.3 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Marc Montpas (Jetpack Scan)

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

All in One SEO – Best WordPress SEO Plugin – Easily Improve SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic
Vulnerable Versions:
4.1.3.1, 4.1.5.3

Timeline

Official Publish: January 17th, 2022
Last Modified: August 3rd, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)