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.
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Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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10.0
CRITICAL
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% percentile: 58 · as of 12 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-912
Could this be exploited in your environment?
A patch closes the known hole. A penetration test shows what an attacker can still reach — with proof.