Description

The Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Rank Math API in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.235 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-13227

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.4

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor: rankmath

Product: Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 24.01% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-14 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/24df10fb-5143-478e-90f0-27f604ad43ee?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L257
https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/#developers
https://rankmath.com/changelog/free/page/2/
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3222905/

Timeline