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

4.3
Improper Access Control
CVE CVE-2024-13229
CVSS 4.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published February 12, 2025
Last Updated February 13, 2025
Researcher Webbernaut

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.

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Vulnerability Details for Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug seo-by-rank-math (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.0.236, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.235
Patched Version
  • 1.0.236

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