Vulnerabilities and security researches forwordpress-seo wordpress-seo

Jun 07, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2015-2293
Home page URL: Security reports for Yoast SEO
Application: Yoast SEO
Date: Mar 17, 2015
Research Description: Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php in the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin before 1.5.7, 1.6.x before 1.6.4, and 1.7.x before 1.7.4 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that conduct SQL injection attacks via the (1) order_by or (2) order parameter in the wpseo_bulk-editor page.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2021-25118
Home page URL: Security reports for Yoast SEO
Application: Yoast SEO
Date: Feb 28, 2022
Research Description: The Yoast SEO WordPress plugin (from versions 16.7 until 17.2) discloses the full internal path of featured images in posts via the wp/v2/posts REST endpoints which could help an attacker identify other vulnerabilities or help during the exploitation of other identified vulnerabilities.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2021-24153
Home page URL: Security reports for Yoast SEO
Application: Yoast SEO
Date: Apr 06, 2021
Research Description: A Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was discovered in the Yoast SEO WordPress plugin before 3.4.1, which had built-in blacklist filters which were blacklisting Parenthesis as well as several functions such as alert but bypasses were found.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2019-13478
Home page URL: Security reports for Yoast SEO
Application: Yoast SEO
Date: Jul 10, 2019
Research Description: The Yoast SEO plugin before 11.6-RC5 for WordPress does not properly restrict unfiltered HTML in term descriptions.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2018-19370
Home page URL: Security reports for Yoast SEO
Application: Yoast SEO
Date: Nov 29, 2018
Research Description: A Race condition vulnerability in unzip_file in admin/import/class-import-settings.php in the Yoast SEO (wordpress-seo) plugin before 9.2.0 for WordPress allows an SEO Manager to perform command execution on the Operating System via a ZIP import.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2017-16842
Home page URL: Security reports for Yoast SEO
Application: Yoast SEO
Date: Nov 16, 2017
Research Description: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/google_search_console/class-gsc-table.php in the Yoast SEO plugin before 5.8.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2015-2292
Home page URL: Security reports for Yoast SEO
Application: Yoast SEO
Date: Mar 17, 2015
Research Description: Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php in the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin before 1.5.7, 1.6.x before 1.6.4, and 1.7.x before 1.7.4 for WordPress allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) order_by or (2) order parameter in the wpseo_bulk-editor page to wp-admin/admin.php. NOTE: this can be leveraged using CSRF to allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2012-6692
Home page URL: Security reports for Yoast SEO
Application: Yoast SEO
Date: Jun 17, 2015
Research Description: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in js/wp-seo-metabox.js in the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin before 2.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the post_title parameter to wp-admin/post-new.php, which is not properly handled in the snippet preview functionality.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-40680
Home page URL: Security reports for Yoast SEO
Application: Yoast SEO
Date: Nov 30, 2023
Research Description: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Team Yoast Yoast SEO allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Yoast SEO: from n/a through 21.0.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-4041
Home page URL: Security reports for Yoast SEO
Application: Yoast SEO
Date: May 14, 2024
Research Description: 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.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-4984
Home page URL: Security reports for Yoast SEO
Application: Yoast SEO
Date: May 16, 2024
Research 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.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

Sep 02, 2024

PSC, Research URL: PSC-2024-64523
Home page URL: Security reports for Yoast SEO
Application: Yoast SEO
Date: Apr 15, 2025
Research Description: The “Yoast SEO” plugin, version 25.9, renowned for its comprehensive SEO capabilities, has now achieved the Plugin Security Certification (PSC) from CleanTalk, affirming its status as a secure SEO solution for WordPress sites.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: SAFE & CERTIFIED