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CVE-2024-9161: 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' fu

medium Affects seo-by-rank-math (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

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' fu

Package
seo-by-rank-math (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<1.0.229
Fixed in
1.0.229
Severity
medium  CVSS 6.5
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 2% (81.9th percentile)
Published
2024-10-05
Source
nvd

References

CWE-862
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