PT-2024-20901 · WordPress · Rank Math Seo

Ancorn + 1 · Published 2024-03-26 · Updated 2025-10-10 · CVE-2024-2536

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Rank Math SEO with AI SEO Tools plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.0.214

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the HowTo block attributes due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This allows 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. The estimated number of potentially affected websites is over 2 million.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 1.0.214, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue to prevent Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-2536

Affected Products

Rank Math Seo

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-2536 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3055515/seo-by-rank-math/tags/1.0.215/includes/modules/schema/blocks/toc/assets/src/utils.js?old=2959806&old_path=seo-by-rank-math/trunk/includes/modules/schema/blocks/toc/assets/src/utils.js · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2536 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/TheCyberExpress/status/1772702672350556618 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/81a82caf-4013-42c4-ad63-4e13bfa4322f?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/138192 · Telegram Post