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CVE-2024-4984

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.4 Published: 2024-05-16 Modified: 2026-06-17

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 Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-79

References