CVE-2026-15252: CWE-862 Missing Authorization in Search Atlas SEO
Search Atlas SEO WordPress plugin versions before 2.6.12 contain a missing authorization vulnerability in one of its AJAX handlers. This flaw allows any authenticated user, including low-privileged roles like Subscribers, to invoke the site's Google Indexing API integration. Exploitation can result in unauthorized submission or removal of URLs from Google's index and consumption of the site's indexing quota.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
CVE-2026-15252 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the Search Atlas SEO WordPress plugin prior to version 2.6.12. The plugin fails to perform capability or nonce checks in an AJAX handler, enabling any authenticated user, regardless of privilege level, to interact with the Google Indexing API integration. This can lead to unauthorized actions such as submitting or removing URLs from Google's index and exhausting the indexing quota allocated to the site.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability allows low-privileged authenticated users to manipulate the site's Google Indexing API integration without proper authorization. This can lead to unintended modification of the site's indexed URLs on Google, potentially affecting search engine visibility and exhausting the indexing quota, which may disrupt legitimate indexing operations.
Mitigation Recommendations
A fix is available in Search Atlas SEO version 2.6.12 and later. Users should upgrade to version 2.6.12 or newer to resolve this missing authorization vulnerability. Patch status is not explicitly confirmed in the vendor advisory, so verify the update availability and remediation details from the official plugin source.
CVE-2026-15252: CWE-862 Missing Authorization in Search Atlas SEO
Description
Search Atlas SEO WordPress plugin versions before 2.6.12 contain a missing authorization vulnerability in one of its AJAX handlers. This flaw allows any authenticated user, including low-privileged roles like Subscribers, to invoke the site's Google Indexing API integration. Exploitation can result in unauthorized submission or removal of URLs from Google's index and consumption of the site's indexing quota.
CVSS v3.1
Score 5.4medium
Affected software
Search Atlas SEO
Weaknesses
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2026-15252 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the Search Atlas SEO WordPress plugin prior to version 2.6.12. The plugin fails to perform capability or nonce checks in an AJAX handler, enabling any authenticated user, regardless of privilege level, to interact with the Google Indexing API integration. This can lead to unauthorized actions such as submitting or removing URLs from Google's index and exhausting the indexing quota allocated to the site.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability allows low-privileged authenticated users to manipulate the site's Google Indexing API integration without proper authorization. This can lead to unintended modification of the site's indexed URLs on Google, potentially affecting search engine visibility and exhausting the indexing quota, which may disrupt legitimate indexing operations.
Mitigation Recommendations
A fix is available in Search Atlas SEO version 2.6.12 and later. Users should upgrade to version 2.6.12 or newer to resolve this missing authorization vulnerability. Patch status is not explicitly confirmed in the vendor advisory, so verify the update availability and remediation details from the official plugin source.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- WPScan
- Date Reserved
- 2026-07-09T12:38:54.313Z
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6a6aee0a9c2644c7f8a7ef96
Added to database: 07/30/2026, 06:24:10 UTC
Last enriched: 08/06/2026, 17:50:11 UTC
Last updated: 09/11/2026, 07:31:51 UTC
Views: 40
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