Headline

CVE-2023-40680: WordPress Yoast SEO plugin <= 21.0 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability - Patchstack

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.

10 months ago

CVE

Open in Source

#xss #vulnerability #web #wordpress

Solution

Update to fix

vPatch available

Update the WordPress Yoast SEO plugin to the latest available version (at least 21.1).

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Rafie Muhammad (Patchstack) discovered and reported this Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress Yoast SEO Plugin. This could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into your website which will be executed when guests visit your site. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 21.1.

Other vulnerabilities in this plugin

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15 patched

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