CVE-2025-12360 Better Find and Replace <= 1.7.7 - Missing Authorization
Authenticated subscribers can bypass authorization checks to trigger OpenAI API calls, causing unauthorized quota consumption and potential financial costs.
- 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-2025-12360?
CVE-2025-12360 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in codesolz Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions, published on 6 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized API usage due to a missing capability check on the rtafar_ajax() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access, to trigger OpenAI API key usage resulting in quota consumption potentially incurring cost.
Weakness: CWE-285
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12360?
How do I fix CVE-2025-12360?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12360 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-2025-12360 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12360 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c6mq-jmqr-fj42.