{"id":"CVE-2020-11514","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-11514","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T02:12:31.447Z","title":"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…","description":"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.","published":"2020-04-07T17:15:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:50:19.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-862"],"affected":["rankmath/seo"],"epss":{"score":0.1086,"percentile":0.95867,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[{"date":"2026-10-25","score":0.1086,"percentile":0.95829}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.9%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[{"kind":"epss","label":"EPSS jump","at":"2026-10-25T00:00:00.000Z","detail":{"to":0.1086,"from":0.09106,"percentile":0.95829},"summary":"EPSS moved from 9.1% to 10.9% probability of exploitation in the next thirty days."}],"references":[{"url":"https://rankmath.com/changelog/","tags":["Product","Release Notes"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/#developers","tags":["Product"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/03/critical-vulnerabilities-affecting-over-200000-sites-patched-in-rank-math-seo-plugin/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://rankmath.com/changelog/","tags":["Product","Release Notes"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/#developers","tags":["Product"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/03/critical-vulnerabilities-affecting-over-200000-sites-patched-in-rank-math-seo-plugin/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11514","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}