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SmartCrawl WordPress SEO checker, SEO analyzer, SEO optimizer, CVE-2025-11163

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-11163

Published on
Sep 30, 2025
Research Description
The SmartCrawl SEO checker, analyzer & optimizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the update_submodule() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.14.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugin's setttings.
Affected versions
Min -, max 3.14.4.
Status
vulnerable