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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-9161 Detail

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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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Hyperlink Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L120
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L161
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L162
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L64
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3161896/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7df39a64-76c5-4ebe-a271-44bd147a3a86?source=cve

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-862 Missing Authorization Wordfence  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-9161
NVD Published Date:
10/05/2024
NVD Last Modified:
10/07/2024
Source:
Wordfence