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CVE-2024-13229: Rank Math SEO <= 1.0.235 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Schema Deletion

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-02-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

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

• Rank Math SEO: before 1.0.236 — fixed in 1.0.236

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Rank Math SEO 1.0.236. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L169
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3222905/
• https://rankmath.com/changelog/free/page/2/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5776f689-56dd-413d-b02d-5551b97dd5eb?source=cve

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