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CVE-2025-12360: Better Find and Replace AI-Powered Suggestions plugin unauthorized API usage

Source: NVD(opens in a new tab)
Identifier: CVE-2025-12360
Published: November 6, 2025
Record updated: October 9, 2026

Known exploitation: Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog at the last check.
EPSS: 0.2%

Summary

CVE-2025-12360 affects the Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions plugin for WordPress in all versions up to and including 1.7.7. A missing capability check on the rtafar_ajax() function lets authenticated users with Subscriber-level access trigger usage of the site's OpenAI API key. Attackers can consume API quota, which may incur cost.

Mitigation

The source does not state a fix yet. Check the original advisory for updates.

Details

Scores and exploitation

CVSS score: 4.3(medium)
EPSS: 0.2%Estimated probability that this CVE is exploited in the next 30 days, from the FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System. Read on November 4, 2026.

Weaknesses and techniques

Weakness (CWE): CWE-285

Affected

Vendors: OpenAI

Classification

Attack type: Other
Attack sophistication: Trivial
AI component targeted: API
Impact: Availability
Labels: security,
industry

How this record was produced

Summaries, mitigations and labels on this page are generated automatically from the source. The linked source is authoritative. The source gives this advisory a description and no title, so the title above is a headline generated from the source text.

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12360

First tracked: February 15, 2026 at 08:49 PM ET, from NVD/CVE Database

Classifier: claude-haiku-5-5, prompt v4

Classifier confidence: 90% (self-assessed)

Summary

Mitigation

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