CVE-2024-9161

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.

CVSS v3.1

6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

EPSS

2.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 81th percentile

Nuclei

medium · CWE-862

Published

2024-10-05

Updated

2026-04-08

Nuclei templates (1)

• projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-9161.yaml

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2024-9156
• CVE-2024-9162
• CVE-2024-9148
• CVE-2024-9163
• CVE-2024-9122
• CVE-2024-9164