Rank Math SEO with AI SEO Tools, CVE-2024-9161
- CVE, Research URL
- Home page URL
- Application
- Published on
- Oct 05, 2024
- Research Description
- The Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification and loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'update_metadata' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.228. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to insert new and update existing metadata beginning with 'rank_math', and delete arbitrary existing user metadata and term metadata. Deleting existing usermeta can cause a loss of access to the administrator dashboard for any registered users, including Administrators.
- Affected versions
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Min -, max 1.0.229.
- Status
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vulnerable