THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-11514
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2020-11514

Seo vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
9.1%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
The Rank Math plugin through 1.0.40.2 for WordPress allows unauthenticated remote attackers to update arbitrary WordPress metadata, including the ability to escalate or revoke administrative privileges for existing users via the unsecured rankmath/v1/updateMeta REST API endpoint.
Affected vendor
Rankmath
Affected product
Seo
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2020-04-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 9.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-11514

  • Confirm whether Rankmath Seo is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-11514.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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