Better Find and Replace <= 1.7.7 - Missing Authorization

Improper Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-12360
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published November 5, 2025
Last Updated November 6, 2025
Researcher Adrian Lukita
Description

The Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized API usage due to a missing capability check on the rtafar_ajax() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access, to trigger OpenAI API key usage resulting in quota consumption potentially incurring cost.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug real-time-auto-find-and-replace (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.7
Patched Version
  • 1.7.8
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