CVE-2024-9161: Rankmath Seo

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.1% 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 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.

Affected products

• Rankmath Seo: before 1.0.229 (fixed in 1.0.229)

Published 2024-10-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.