Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Apr 9, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-2536

Description

The Rank Math SEO with AI SEO Tools plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the HowTo block attributes in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.214 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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Affected products

Rankmath/Seo
cpe:2.3:a:rankmath:seo:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:*
Range: <1.0.215
WordPress/Rank Math SEO with AI Best SEO Toolsllm-fuzzy
Range: <=1.0.214

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3055515/seo-by-rank-math/tags/1.0.215/includes/modules/schema/blocks/toc/assets/src/utils.jsnvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/81a82caf-4013-42c4-ad63-4e13bfa4322fnvdThird Party Advisory

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