The Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 21.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with seo manager-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
| Software Type | Plugin |
|---|---|
| Software Slug |
wordpress-seo
View on wordpress.org
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| CVE | CVE-2023-40680 |
| Patched Versions |
21.1
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| Affected Versions |
*-21.0
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