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CVE-2025-12958 (GCVE-0-2025-12958)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-07 08:21 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:21

Title

Rankology SEO and Analytics Tool <= 2.0 - Incorrect Authorization to Authenticated (Editor+) Header & Footer Code Creation

Summary

The Rankology SEO and Analytics Tool plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an incorrect capability check on the 'rankology_code_block' page in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Editor-level access and above, to add header and footer code blocks.

Severity

2.7 (Low)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-01-07 16:28 UTC

CWE

CWE-285 - Improper Authorization

Assigner

Wordfence mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://wordpress.org/plugins/rankology-seo-and-a…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
rankology	Rankology SEO and Analytics Tool	Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.0 (semver)	guessed

Credits

SangNQ29

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FKIE_CVE-2025-12958

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-07 12:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:33

Severity

2.7 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security@wordfence.com	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3441084%40rankology-seo-and-analytics-tool&new=3441084%40rankology-seo-and-analytics-tool&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
	security@wordfence.com	https://wordpress.org/plugins/rankology-seo-and-analytics-tool/
	security@wordfence.com	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c97a341c-23f5-49a9-ad05-1fb387047e3b?source=cve

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-X8RQ-M8J4-85PR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-01-07 12:31 – Updated: 2026-04-08 21:33

Details

Severity

2.7 (Low)


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

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