Is All in One SEO safe? Known vulnerabilities and latest version

The All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.3 via the 's' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract arbitrary non-public post meta values, including sensitive custom fields such as API keys and internal notes, emitted verbatim into the HTML title element and JSON-LD SearchResultsPage schema.

The The All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.2 This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes. This requires the AIOSEO breadcrumb to be rendered on the search results page via the block, widget, shortcode, or template tag.

The All in One SEO WordPress plugin before 5.0.2.1 does not correctly determine which shortcodes are present in content derived from user input before deciding which ones to strip, allowing unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary shortcodes registered on the site. On sites upgraded from older versions the protection is disabled outright, making the issue reachable without any crafted input.

The All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via URL Pathname in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.1.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user visits a crafted URL. Exploitation requires the victim to hold the aioseo_manage_seo capability and to open the SEO Preview panel in the WordPress admin toolbar while visiting a page with a malicious payload embedded in the URL pathname.

The All in One SEO WordPress plugin before 5.0.0.1 does not sanitise and escape some content stored in posts before rendering it back in the post editor, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks that trigger when a higher privileged user edits the post.

The All in One SEO WordPress plugin before 4.9.9 does not correctly restrict access to some of its AI integration REST API endpoints, allowing users with low-level privileges such as Contributors to overwrite or reset the site-wide AI integration state.

The All in One SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure via 'internalOptions' localized script data in versions up to, and including, 4.9.7 due to sensitive internal option data being passed to wp_localize_script() in post editor contexts without effective masking for low-privilege users. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to view configured API/OAuth tokens and license-related values from page source.

The All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the `/aioseo/v1/ai/credits` REST route in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to disclose the global AI access token.

Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data vulnerability in Syed Balkhi All In One SEO Pack all-in-one-seo-pack allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data.This issue affects All In One SEO Pack: from n/a through <= 4.8.6.1.

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in Syed Balkhi All In One SEO Pack all-in-one-seo-pack allows Blind SQL Injection.This issue affects All In One SEO Pack: from n/a through <= 4.9.1.

The All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary media attachment deletion due to a missing authorization check in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.9. This is due to the REST API endpoint `/wp-json/aioseo/v1/ai/image-generator` only verifying that users have the `edit_posts` capability (Contributors and above) without checking if they own or have permission to delete the specific media attachments. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to permanently delete arbitrary media attachments by ID via the REST API, granted they can determine valid attachment IDs.

Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data vulnerability in Syed Balkhi All In One SEO Pack all-in-one-seo-pack allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data.This issue affects All In One SEO Pack: from n/a through <= 4.8.7.1.

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Syed Balkhi All In One SEO Pack all-in-one-seo-pack allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects All In One SEO Pack: from n/a through <= 4.8.7.1.

The All in One SEO WordPress plugin before 4.6.1.1 does not validate and escape some of its Post fields before outputting them back, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

The All in One SEO – Best WordPress SEO Plugin – Easily Improve SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode(s) in all versions up to, and including, 4.6.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

The All in One SEO Pack plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via multiple parameters in versions up to, and including, 4.2.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Administrator role or above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

The All in One SEO Pack plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via multiple parameters in versions up to, and including, 4.2.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Contributor+ role to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Multiple Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in All in One SEO plugin <= 4.2.3.1 at WordPress.

The All in One SEO WordPress plugin before 4.1.5.3 is affected by a Privilege Escalation issue, which was discovered during an internal audit by the Jetpack Scan team, and may grant bad actors access to protected REST API endpoints they shouldn’t have access to. This could ultimately enable users with low-privileged accounts, like subscribers, to perform remote code execution on affected sites.

The All in One SEO WordPress plugin before 4.1.5.3 is affected by an authenticated SQL injection issue, which was discovered during an internal audit by the Jetpack Scan team, and could grant attackers access to privileged information from the affected site’s database (e.g., usernames and hashed passwords).

The all-in-one-seo-pack plugin before 3.2.7 for WordPress (aka All in One SEO Pack) is susceptible to Stored XSS due to improper encoding of the SEO-specific description for posts provided by the plugin via unsafe placeholder replacement.