🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-1928

HIGH 8.8

Rank Math SEO <= 1.0.276 - Authenticated (Contributor+) PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution

CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.276 via deserialization of untrusted input in the updateMeta REST API endpoint. This makes it possible forauthenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject a PHP Object. The additional presence of a POP chain allows attackers to achieve remote code execution by writing a webshell to the uploads directory.

CWE CWE-502
Vendor rankmath
Product rank math seo – ai seo tools to dominate seo rankings
Published Oct 28, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

rankmath / Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings
0 ≤ 1.0.276

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cd4395be-7b4c-46b0-be00-7dedc6691f4a?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/tags/1.0.263/includes/rest/class-shared.php#L446 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/tags/1.0.263/includes/modules/schema/class-db.php#L66 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-by-rank-math/tags/1.0.263/includes/rest/class-sanitize.php#L110 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3666725/

Credits

moochi