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CVE-2024-9161
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2024-10-05T12:15:02.897 · Last modified 2026-06-17T08:24:04.233

Summary

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 products

rankmath — seo

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References

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