Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 5, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-9161
CVE-2024-9161
Description
The Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification and loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'update_metadata' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.228. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to insert new and update existing metadata beginning with 'rank_math', and delete arbitrary existing user metadata and term metadata. Deleting existing usermeta can cause a loss of access to the administrator dashboard for any registered users, including Administrators.
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Affected products
3- Range: <=1.0.228
- rankmath/Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankingsv5Range: 0
Patches
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References
6- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3161896/nvdPatch
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7df39a64-76c5-4ebe-a271-44bd147a3a86nvdThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.phpnvdProduct
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.phpnvdProduct
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.phpnvdProduct
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.phpnvdProduct
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