CVE-2024-4984

MEDIUM

Yoast SEO <= 22.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Title source: CVE List
STIX 2.1 vulnerability

Record summary

CVE-2024-4984 has a selected CVSS score of 6.4 (medium).

Description

The Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘display_name’ author meta in all versions up to, and including, 22.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

CISA SSVC decision

ExploitationNone
AutomatableNo
Technical impactPartial

CISA Coordinator · SSVC 2.0.3 · Evaluated May 16, 2024 · Source: CVE List

Affected products and versions

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ProductSourceVersion range

Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI

Browse yoast / Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI

Default status: unaffected

CVE ListThrough 22.6affected

References

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