Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense <= 2.0.14 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Ad Placements Update

Improper Access Control
CVE CVE-2025-12884
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published February 18, 2026
Last Updated February 19, 2026
Researcher Supakiad S. (m3ez)
Description

The Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in versions up to, and including, 2.0.14. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action in the `placement_update_item()` function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update ad placements, allowing them to change which ad or ad group a placement serves.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advanced-ads (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.14
Patched Version
  • 2.0.15
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