CVE-2026-77784 (GCVE-0-2026-77784)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-02 06:00
Modified
2026-09-02 10:45
Summary
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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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Rank Math SEO Version: 0   ≤
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