CVE-2024-13229: Rankmath Seo

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Rankmath Seo: before 1.0.236 (fixed in 1.0.236)

Published 2025-02-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.