Better Find and Replace <= 1.7.7 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Code Injection
CVE-2025-9334Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.7.7Update to 1.7.8 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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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 ISMAILSHADOW.
The Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Limited Code Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.7. This is due to insufficient input validation and restriction on the 'rtafar_ajax' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to call arbitrary plugin functions and execute code within those functions.
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 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤1.7.7Update to 1.7.8 | CVE-2025-12360 | |
| 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
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤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 high, CVSS 8.8
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
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.