The Bulk SEO Image plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to and including 1.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the plugin's settings page handler BulkSeoImage(), which dispatches to launchbulk() / BulkSeoImageGo() whenever the request contains $_POST['bulkseoimage']. No wp_nonce_field() is emitted in the form and no check_admin_referer()/wp_verify_nonce() is performed before bulk-overwriting the _wp_attachment_image_alt post meta for every image attached to every published post and/or page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bulk-overwrite image ALT-text metadata across the site via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
CVE-2026-11997
Score 4.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-06-24. a secondary CVSS source baseline 4.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 4.3
- EG Score
- 4.3(high)
- EPSS
- 2.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 24, 2026
Last Modified
June 25, 2026
References (4)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bulk-seo-image/tags/1.1/bulk-seo-image.php#L11
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bulk-seo-image/tags/1.1/bulk-seo-image.php#L147
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bulk-seo-image/tags/1.1/bulk-seo-image.php#L76
- security@wordfencehttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ef176a6c-33d1-45d6-8a1d-3df1e8eb2170?source=cve
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-11997(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 38× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 04:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 04:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 02:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 02:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 00:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 00:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-02 22:41 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-02 22:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 20:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 20:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 15:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 15:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 18:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-30 18:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-29 17:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-29 17:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-29 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-28 15:07 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-28 15:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-28 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-06-28 04:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-28 04:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-27 13:14 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-27 13:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-27 03:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-26 11:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-26 11:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-25 09:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-25 09:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-24 14:05 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-24 07:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-24 07:29 UTCNVD updatefirst tracked
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