CVE-2024-13229

Published: Feb 13, 2025Modified: Feb 24, 2025

4.3

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 1.4

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

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 (1)

Products: Rankmath: Seo

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Rankmath Seo	Before 1.0.236

Related CWEs

Improper Access Control

The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

Missing Authorization

The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

References (5)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L169

Source: security@wordfence.com

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3222905/

Source: security@wordfence.com

Patch

https://rankmath.com/changelog/free/page/2/

Source: security@wordfence.com

ProductRelease Notes

https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/#developers

Source: security@wordfence.com

ProductRelease Notes

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5776f689-56dd-413d-b02d-5551b97dd5eb?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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