CVE-2024-9161
moderate-risk
Published 2024-10-05
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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23.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 77% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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6
CVSS 6.5/10
Medium
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (1)
Seo
Affected Vendors
References (6)
Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7df39a64-76c5-4ebe-a27...
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
24/34 · High
Exploitability
14/34 · Moderate
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal