{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13229 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2024-13229 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2024-13229 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in rankmath Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings, published on 13 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-13229 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-13229 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in rankmath Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings, published on 13 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13229 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: rankmath Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13229/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13229/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-13229","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13229/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-13229","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-58hw-j5w4-6gj6"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_modify"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated contributors can delete arbitrary schema metadata due to missing capability checks in the Rank Math SEO plugin.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[{"product":"seo","vendor":"rankmath"}],"cvss":{"score":4.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-862","name":"Missing Authorization"},{"id":"CWE-284","name":"Improper Access Control"}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Rank Math SEO \u003c= 1.0.235 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Schema Deletion","id":"CVE-2024-13229","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"missing_authorization","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"SQL injection in Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin – Super Socializer","id":"CVE-2024-13230"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Information disclosure in Qubely – Advanced Gutenberg Blocks","id":"CVE-2024-13228"},"products":["Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings"],"published":"2025-02-13","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Missing authorization in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-11514","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-04-07"},{"cvss_score":7.6,"headline":"WordPress Rank Math SEO plugin \u003c= 1.0.107.2 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability","id":"CVE-2023-23888","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-05-17"},{"cvss_score":7.2,"headline":"Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings \u003c= 1.0.228 - Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection","id":"CVE-2024-9314","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-10-05"},{"cvss_score":6.8,"headline":"WordPress Rank Math SEO plugin \u003c= 1.0.95 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-36376","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-09-09"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Missing authorization in Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings","id":"CVE-2024-9161","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-10-05"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"WordPress Rank Math SEO Plugin \u003c= 1.0.119 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)","id":"CVE-2023-32600","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-08-05"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Missing authorization in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-14786","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-08-15"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-08","vendors":["rankmath"]},"summary":"Authenticated contributors can delete arbitrary schema metadata due to missing capability checks in the Rank Math SEO plugin.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13229/"}