CVE-2026-1293

MEDIUM

Yoast SEO < 26.8 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via yoast-schema Block Attribute

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 the the `yoast-schema` block attribute in all versions up to, and including, 26.8 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.

References (4)

Core 4

Scores

CVSS v3 6.4
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 8.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (1)
yoast/Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI < 26.8
Published Feb 06, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026