WordPress SEO Plugin - Rank Math < 1.0.41 - Privilege Escalation via Unprotected REST API Endpoint

Description

This plugin registered a REST-API endpoint, rankmath/v1/updateMeta, which failed to include a permission_callback used for capability checking. The endpoint called a function, update_metadata which could be used to update the slug on existing posts, or could be used to delete or update metadata for posts, comments, and terms. This endpoint also allowed for updating metadata for users. WordPress user permissions are stored in the usermeta table, which meant that an unauthenticated attacker could grant or revoke administrative privileges for any registered user.