Description
The Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Slug (post_name) in all versions up to, and including, 28.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires pretty permalinks to be enabled, as the exploit chain depends on get_permalink() embedding the stored percent-encoded post_name in the generated URL.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
yoast Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI
Default version status: unaffected
0 to ≤ 28.0affected
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4b2fa1b7-a5af-4ea6-9bee-19a6cdfd7701?source=cve ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/28.0/admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php#L900 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/28.0/admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php#L898 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/27.6/admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php#L900 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/27.6/admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php#L898 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3598937/wordpress-seo/trunk/admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fwordpress-seo/tags/28.0&new_path=%2Fwordpress-seo/tags/28.1 ↗