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

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-13 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- rankmath Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings: through 1.0.235

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on rankmath Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

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

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