cve-2025-11163
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-30 05:28
Modified
2025-09-30 15:41
Summary
SmartCrawl SEO checker, analyzer & optimizer <= 3.14.3 - Missing Authorization to Plugin Settings Update
Impacted products
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