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Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings <= 1.0.271 — Missing Authorization

CVE-2026-34892Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.0.271Update to 1.0.271.1 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings seo-by-rank-math

  1. Affected≤ 1.0.271
  2. Patched in1.0.271.1

Update to 1.0.271.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.0.271. Version 1.0.271.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.0.271.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Jakub Herman.

The Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in versions up to, and including, 1.0.271. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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