Medium
Yoast SEO <= 22.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-4984
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 8 Nov 2026, 03:16 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Yoast SEO <= 22.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 16 May 2024, 02:02 UTC
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.
osv:CVE-2024-4984
Complete source record
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