FKIE_CVE-2024-13229

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-02-13 05:15 - Updated: 2025-02-24 17:07
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
The Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the update_metadata() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.235. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to delete any schema metadata assigned to any post.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L169Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3222905/Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://rankmath.com/changelog/free/page/2/Product, Release Notes
security@wordfence.comhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/#developersProduct, Release Notes
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5776f689-56dd-413d-b02d-5551b97dd5eb?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
rankmath seo *
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  "lastModified": "2025-02-24T17:07:33.247",
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          "attackComplexity": "LOW",
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      "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
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