CVE-2025-12360
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.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.22%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.22% probability · 12th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-285
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/real-time-auto-find-and-replace/trunk/core/actions/RTAFAR_CustomAjax.php#L31
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3389979/real-time-auto-find-and-replace/trunk/core/actions/RTAFAR_CustomAjax.php?contextall=1&old=3343531&old_path=%2Freal-time-auto-find-and-replace%2Ftrunk%2Fcore%2Factions%2FRTAFAR_CustomAjax.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/757e41dd-d72f-4e87-a087-c5c38bd727e5?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.