Better Find and Replace <= 1.7.7 — Missing Authorization
CVE-2025-12360Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.7.7Update to 1.7.8 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-285 Improper Authorization
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions real-time-auto-find-and-replace
- Affected≤ 1.7.7
- Patched in1.7.8
Update to 1.7.8 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.7.7. Version 1.7.8 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.7.8, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Adrian Lukita.
The Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized API usage due to a missing capability check on the rtafar_ajax() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access, to trigger OpenAI API key usage resulting in quota consumption potentially incurring cost.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions
All 8| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium5.4 | Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Uploaded Image Title ≤1.7.9Update to 1.8.0 | CVE-2026-3369 | |
| High8.8 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Code Injection ≤1.7.7Update to 1.7.8 | CVE-2025-9334 | |
| Medium4.4 | Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.7.6Update to 1.7.7 | CVE-2025-53466 | |
| High8.8 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation ≤1.6.7Update to 1.6.8 | CVE-2025-24734 | |
| High8.3 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection ≤1.6.1Update to 1.6.2 | CVE-2024-39636 |
- Medium5.4Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Uploaded Image Title
≤1.7.9Update to 1.8.0
- High8.8Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Code Injection
≤1.7.7Update to 1.7.8
- Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.7.6Update to 1.7.7
- High8.8Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
≤1.6.7Update to 1.6.8
- High8.3Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
≤1.6.1Update to 1.6.2
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
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- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.