CVE-2024-13227 (GCVE-0-2024-13227)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-13 04:21 – Updated: 2025-02-13 19:40
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Summary
The Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Rank Math API in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.235 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.
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
rankmath Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings Affected: * , ≤ 1.0.235 (semver)
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Credits
Craig Smith
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