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CVE-2026-77784 (GCVE-0-2026-77784)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-02 06:00 – Updated: 2026-09-02 10:45

Title

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

Summary

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.

Severity

2.7 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-02 10:34 UTC

CWE

CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Assigner

WPScan mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7a6ad8c5-eb7e-42…	exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Unknown	Rank Math SEO	Affected: 0 , < 1.0.277 (semver)	guessed

Credits

Project Black WPScan

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FKIE_CVE-2026-77784

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-02 06:17 - Updated: 2026-09-02 11:17

Severity

2.7 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	contact@wpscan.com	https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7a6ad8c5-eb7e-4201-8597-479e77863985/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-RH8H-JGFM-8MQ4

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-02 06:31 – Updated: 2026-09-02 12:31

Details

Severity

2.7 (Low)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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  "aliases": [
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  ],
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  "id": "GHSA-rh8h-jgfm-8mq4",
  "modified": "2026-09-02T12:31:27Z",
  "published": "2026-09-02T06:31:15Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77784"
    },
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    }
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.

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