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Critical · 9.8 Public exploit CVE-2024-12252 EUVD-2024-50716GHSA-wgh8-4hmr-gpcm

SEO LAT Auto Post <= 2.2.1 - Missing Authorization to File Overwrite/Upload (Remote Code Execution)

Published Jan 7, 2025 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Vendor: seobeginner Product: SEO LAT Auto Post Category: Web / CMS

Description

The SEO LAT Auto Post plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to file overwrite due to a missing capability check on the remote_update AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the seo-beginner-auto-post.php file which can be leveraged to achieve remote code execution.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
seobeginner SEO LAT Auto Post ≤ 2.2.1 —

Public exploits

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GitHub 2 repositories

  • Nxploited/CVE-2024-12252 ★ 1 · Mar 26, 2025

    SEO LAT Auto Post <= 2.2.1 - Missing Authorization to File Overwrite/Upload (Remote Code Execution)

  • RandomRobbieBF/CVE-2024-12252 ★ 1 · Jan 7, 2025

    SEO LAT Auto Post <= 2.2.1 - Missing Authorization to File Overwrite/Upload (Remote Code Execution)

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