WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Yoast SEO < 27.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via 'jsonText' Block Attribute

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the the `jsonText` block attribute 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.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 27.2

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Osvaldo Noe Gonzalez Del Rio (Os)
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-03-21 (about 1 month ago)
Added
2026-03-23 (about 1 month ago)
Last Updated
2026-03-23 (about 1 month ago)

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