CVE-2024-9314: The Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.228 via deserialization of untrusted inpu

high 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 PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.228 via deserialization of untrusted inpu

Package
seo-by-rank-math (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<1.0.229
Fixed in
1.0.229
Severity
high  CVSS 7.2
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (57.6th percentile)
Published
2024-10-05
Source
nvd

References

CWE-502
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