Better Find and Replace <= 1.6.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-24734
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published January 27, 2025
Last Updated February 20, 2025
Researcher Ananda Dhakal
Description

The Better Find and Replace plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the db_string_replace() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to replace values in the database that can be leveraged to achieve privilege escalation.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug real-time-auto-find-and-replace (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.7
Patched Version
  • 1.6.8
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