The Rank Math SEO WordPress plugin before 1.0.277 does not verify that a user is allowed to edit the object being modified before updating its SEO indexing metadata, allowing users with the Author role and above to alter that metadata on content, taxonomy terms and user profiles they do not own, and to remove other users' content from the site's sitemap and search engine index.
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Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000
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| Weaknesses | CWE-284 |
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000
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Rank Math Seo
Rank Math Seo rank Math Seo Wordpress Wordpress wordpress |
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Rank Math Seo
Rank Math Seo rank Math Seo Wordpress Wordpress wordpress |
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:15:00 +0000
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| Description | The Rank Math SEO WordPress plugin before 1.0.277 does not verify that a user is allowed to edit the object being modified before updating its SEO indexing metadata, allowing users with the Author role and above to alter that metadata on content, taxonomy terms and user profiles they do not own, and to remove other users' content from the site's sitemap and search engine index. | |
| Title | Rank Math SEO < 1.0.277 - Author+ Robots and Pillar Content Meta Update on Non-Owned Objects via mark_page_as | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: WPScan
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-02T10:45:57.220Z
Reserved: 2026-08-21T12:06:19.060Z
Link: CVE-2026-77784
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-02T06:17:17.667
Modified: 2026-09-02T06:17:17.667
Link: CVE-2026-77784
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-09-02T08:45:04Z
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