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Medium · 6.4 CVE-2026-15425 EUVD-2026-48765GHSA-6qx8-mxxj-98fc

Yoast SEO <= 28.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Slug (post_name)

Published Jul 25, 2026 · Updated Nov 13, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Description

The Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Slug (post_name) in all versions up to, and including, 28.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires pretty permalinks to be enabled, as the exploit chain depends on get_permalink() embedding the stored percent-encoded post_name in the generated URL.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
yoast Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI ≤ 28.0 —

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