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CVE-2024-4617: Rank Math SEO with AI Best SEO Tools <= 1.0.218 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Rank Math SEO with AI Best SEO Tools plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘id’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.0.218 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Rank Math SEO: through 1.0.218

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/modules/schema/blocks/class-block-faq.php#L183
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3084351/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/474fdbcb-fe3c-4a79-a847-363f81b300c2?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/modules/schema/blocks/class-block-faq.php#L183
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3084351/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/474fdbcb-fe3c-4a79-a847-363f81b300c2?source=cve

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