CVE-2024-13227

Medium

Published: 13 February 2025

Published

13 February 2025

Modified

24 February 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS Score 0.0027 50.6th percentile

Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-13227 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Rankmath Seo. Its CVSS base score is 6.4 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked in the top 49.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Other Platforms; in the Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms risk domain.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-51446

Vulnerability details

The Rank Math SEO – AI SEO Tools to Dominate SEO Rankings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Rank Math API in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.235 due to insufficient input sanitization…

and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CWE(s): CWE-79

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category: Other Platforms
Risk Domain: Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025: None mapped
Classification Reason: Matched keywords: ai

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059.007 JavaScript Execution

Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

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T1189 Drive-by Compromise Initial Access

Adversaries may gain access to a system through a user visiting a website over the normal course of browsing.

attack.mitre.org →

T1659 Content Injection Initial Access

Adversaries may gain access and continuously communicate with victims by injecting malicious content into systems through online network traffic.

attack.mitre.org →

Why these techniques?

Stored XSS enables content injection (T1659) of arbitrary JavaScript (T1059.007) into pages, facilitating drive-by compromise (T1189) when users access them.