CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-12714
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-05-29
- Last modified
- 2026-07-21
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the update_site_editor_homepage function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.271. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify several plugin settings including homepage title, meta description, breadcrumbs label, and social media metadata, which can have severe impact on SEO rankings and display malicious content across all site pages where breadcrumbs are used.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-rest-helper.php#L75 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L122 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L129 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L339 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3552223/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-rest-helper.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dd072774-6f85-42de-a9d4-6826703ad839?source=cve www.wordfence.com