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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-9161

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 10/05/2024 8:15:02 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added CVSS V3.1

								
							
							
						
Wordfence AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Added CWE

								
							
							
						
Wordfence CWE-862
Added 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.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Wordfence https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L120 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Wordfence https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L161 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Wordfence https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L162 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Wordfence https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L64 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Wordfence https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3161896/ [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
Wordfence https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7df39a64-76c5-4ebe-a271-44bd147a3a86?source=cve [No types assigned]