CVE-2025-12113 Missing authorization in Alt Text Generator AI – Auto Generate & Bulk Update Alt Texts For Images
Authenticated subscribers can delete the site's API key due to a missing capability check in the Alt Text Generator AI plugin.
- 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-2025-12113?
CVE-2025-12113 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in webtoffee Alt Text Generator AI – Auto Generate & Bulk Update Alt Texts For Images, published on 12 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Alt Text Generator AI – Auto Generate & Bulk Update Alt Texts For Images plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the atgai_delete_api_key() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete the API key connected to the site.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12113?
How do I fix CVE-2025-12113?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12113 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-2025-12113 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12113 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hxc8-52qr-2m6j.