The Premium SEO WordPress plugin is malicious: it ships an unauthenticated backdoor that creates a hidden administrator account and, in some builds, also enables remote code execution, server-side request forgery and arbitrary front-end script/content injection, giving an unauthenticated attacker full control of the affected site.
History

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-284
CWE-79
CWE-918
CWE-94

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-912
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-284
CWE-79
CWE-918
CWE-94

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:15:00 +0000

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Description The Premium SEO WordPress plugin is malicious: it ships an unauthenticated backdoor that creates a hidden administrator account and, in some builds, also enables remote code execution, server-side request forgery and arbitrary front-end script/content injection, giving an unauthenticated attacker full control of the affected site.
Title Premium SEO - Unauthenticated Backdoor (Admin Creation / RCE / SSRF / Content Injection)
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 10, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-08-06T16:52:36.191Z

Updated: 2026-08-07T14:00:31.494Z

Reserved: 2026-07-06T06:50:05.025Z

Link: CVE-2026-14812

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-07T14:00:25.875Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-08-06T22:16:46.967

Modified: 2026-08-26T16:31:16.753

Link: CVE-2026-14812

cve-icon Redhat

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