CVE-2026-77786

MEDIUMPre-NVD 4.94.9
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 4.9 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-29. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 4.9; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory

Also known asEUVD-2026-68059 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

4.9EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorNo fix is confirmed yet: check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 4.9Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

The CVE record's CNA (WPScan) lists Rank Math SEO versions 1.0.271 up to but not including 1.0.277 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

The Rank Math SEO WordPress plugin before 1.0.277 does not check that the user requesting an automated SEO fix holds the capability WordPress itself requires for the settings being changed, allowing users with the Editor role to modify site-wide core WordPress settings that are reserved to administrators.

CVSS v3
4.9
EG Score
4.9MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
22
EG Risk 22/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity49% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 4.9 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.3% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule.
EPSS PROB
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
26th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (4.9): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 4.9 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
4.9 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-24). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says. In the directive's words, “Fix on system upgrade” means that, “unless conditions change”, the vulnerability “should be remediated the next time the vulnerable asset receives a scheduled major upgrade or rebuild”: its timelines are “dynamic as facts change”, and a KEV listing shortens them.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says. In the directive's words, “Fix on system upgrade” means that, “unless conditions change”, the vulnerability “should be remediated the next time the vulnerable asset receives a scheduled major upgrade or rebuild”: its timelines are “dynamic as facts change”, and a KEV listing shortens them.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 29, 2026

Last Modified

August 31, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Aug 30, 2026
No fix on record yet.
Web page

Rank Math SEO < 1.0.277 – Editor+ Core Settings Modification via fix-site-seo Ability | CVE 2026-77786 | Plugin Vulnerabilities

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b0f3dfdb-9f0a-418c-9ce5-6a2b2b1f1b49/

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-77786(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 50× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 146 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 46 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 26th percentile
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  10. 2026-10-25 14:01 UTCEG score recompute
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  13. 2026-10-22 18:20 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-22 18:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
  15. 2026-10-22 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 25th percentile
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  20. 2026-10-18 03:11 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
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  6. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
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  8. 2026-10-10 05:15 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-10 05:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
  10. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  11. 2026-10-09 02:35 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-09 02:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
  13. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  14. 2026-10-08 00:46 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-08 00:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
  16. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  17. 2026-10-06 19:12 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-06 19:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
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  22. 2026-10-05 17:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
  23. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  24. 2026-10-04 15:33 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-04 15:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
  26. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 24th percentile
  27. 2026-10-03 13:37 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-10-03 13:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
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  30. 2026-10-02 07:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
  31. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 23rd percentile
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  33. 2026-10-01 05:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
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  35. 2026-09-30 03:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
  36. 2026-09-29 15:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 23rd percentile
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  38. 2026-09-28 21:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
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  41. 2026-09-27 17:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
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  45. 2026-09-26 15:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
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  48. 2026-09-25 12:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
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  51. 2026-09-24 10:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
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  54. 2026-09-23 08:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
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  57. 2026-09-22 07:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
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  60. 2026-09-21 05:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
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  63. 2026-09-20 03:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
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  65. 2026-09-19 02:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
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  68. 2026-09-18 00:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc24-rpm8-fvr8 · GitHub CVSS 4.9
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-77786?
CVE-2026-77786 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 29, 2026. The Rank Math SEO WordPress plugin before 1.0.277 does not check that the user requesting an automated SEO fix holds the capability WordPress itself requires for the settings being changed, allowing users with the Editor role to modify site-wide core WordPress settings that are reserved to…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-77786 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-77786 was published on August 29, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of August 31, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-77786 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-77786 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (26th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-77786?
CVE-2026-77786 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.9 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-77786?
No fix for CVE-2026-77786 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The CVE record's CNA (WPScan) lists Rank Math SEO versions 1.0.271 up to but not including 1.0.277 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-77786 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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