CVE-2025-11163 SmartCrawl SEO checker, analyzer & optimizer <= 3.14.3 - Missing Authorization to Plugin Settings Update
Authenticated subscribers can modify SmartCrawl SEO plugin settings due to missing capability checks, allowing unauthorized configuration changes.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-11163?
CVE-2025-11163 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wpmudev SmartCrawl SEO checker, analyzer & optimizer, published on 30 Sep 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11163?
How do I fix CVE-2025-11163?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11163 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-11163 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11163 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rx69-548q-xmgh.