CVE-2024-13229

Rank Math SEO <= 1.0.235 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Schema Deletion

CVSS 4.3 MEDIUMEPSS 0.4%CWE-284

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 4.3EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

13 Feb 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected products

rankmath · Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings

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References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L169 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3222905/https://rankmath.com/changelog/free/page/2/https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/#developers https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5776f689-56dd-413d-b02d-5551b97dd5eb?source=cve