Yoast SEO <= 22.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Priority LOW 29CWE-79Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via URLs in all versions up to, and including, 22.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00832 57th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-4041
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-qf34-wg42-vw3p
References
Other 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4e04b161-3cd0-454d-869c-56f42bd8afb0?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/trunk/src/helpers/short-link-helper.php#L105
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/trunk/src/helpers/short-link-helper.php#L45
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/trunk/inc/class-wpseo-shortlinker.php#L20
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/trunk/inc/class-wpseo-admin-bar-menu.php#L601
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3078555/wordpress-seo/trunk#file129
More Yoast vulnerabilities
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- TI-2019-15368 Duplicate-Post 3.2.3 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 4.8
- TI-2019-10120 The Yoast SEO plugin before 11.6-RC5 for WordPress does not properly restrict unfiltered HTML in term descriptions. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-13290 WordPress Yoast SEO: Local Plugin <= 14.8 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2015-02025 Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php in the… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2018-13725 A Race condition vulnerability in unzip_file in admin/import/class-import-settings.php in… CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.6
Sources
- CVE-2024-4041 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-4041 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-qf34-wg42-vw3p · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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