CVE-2025-13085 SiteSEO – SEO Simplified <= 1.3.2 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Sensitive Post Meta Disclosure

What is CVE-2025-13085?

CVE-2025-13085 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in softaculous SiteSEO – SEO Simplified, published on 19 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The SiteSEO – SEO Simplified plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Improper Authorization leading to Sensitive Post Meta Disclosure in versions up to and including 1.3.2. This is due to missing object-level authorization checks in the resolve_variables() AJAX handler. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with the siteseo_manage capability (e.g., Author-level users who have been granted SiteSEO access by an administrator) to read arbitrary post metadata from any post, page, attachment, or WooCommerce order they cannot edit, via the custom field variable resolution feature granted they have been given access to SiteSEO by an administrator and legacy storage is enabled. In affected WooCommerce installations, this exposes sensitive customer billing information including names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, and payment methods.

Weakness: CWE-285

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-13085?

How do I fix CVE-2025-13085?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-13085 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-2025-13085 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13085 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-42fg-gx44-hcxv.