CVE-2024-9161 - Rank Math SEO WordPress Unauthenticated Data Tampering and Loss

CVE-2024-9161 - Rank Math SEO WordPress Unauthenticated Data Tampering and Loss

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CVE ID : CVE-2024-9161
Published : Oct. 5, 2024, 12:15 p.m. | 48 minutes ago
Description : 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.
Severity: 6.5 | MEDIUM
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