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.
Published: 2026-08-06
Score: 10 Critical
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

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

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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'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

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

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

Link: CVE-2026-14812

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-07T00:00:05Z

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