CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-13229
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-02-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284, CWE-862
Description
The Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the update_metadata() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.235. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to delete any schema metadata assigned to any post.
Affected configurations
• rankmath seo (< 1.0.236)
Related
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L169 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3222905/ Patch
- https://rankmath.com/changelog/free/page/2/ Product, Release Notes
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/#developers Product, Release Notes
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5776f689-56dd-413d-b02d-5551b97dd5eb?source=cve Third Party Advisory