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Rank Math SEO < 1.0.277 - Author+ Robots and Pillar Content Meta Update on Non-Owned Objects via mark_page_as

Published Sep 2, 2026

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.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner WPScan
Published Sep 2, 2026
Updated Sep 2, 2026
Reserved Aug 21, 2026
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Sep 2, 2026
NVD
Status Deferred
Modified Sep 3, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a