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.
Published: 2024-05-16
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-44538 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:10.330Z

Reserved: 2024-05-16T02:02:33.785Z

Link: CVE-2024-4984

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:10.330Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-16T02:15:09.003

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:44:00.193

Link: CVE-2024-4984

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T23:06:03Z

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