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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Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000

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

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-02T06:00:19.292Z

Reserved: 2026-08-21T12:06:19.060Z

Link: CVE-2026-77784

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-02T06:17:17.667

Modified: 2026-09-02T06:17:17.667

Link: CVE-2026-77784

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-02T07:45:03Z

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