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WordPress Plugin: squirrly-seo: CVE-2022-44626: Missing Authorization

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 17, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access/modification or loss of data due to a missing capability check on AJAX action handlers in versions up to, and including, 12.1.20. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access, and above, to invoke those functions.

Solution

squirrly-seo-plugin-cve-2022-44626
Title
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