WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Yoast SEO: Local < 15.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some parameters, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
wpseo-local
Fixed in 15.0

References

CVE
CVE-2023-28785

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
5.9 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Rafie Muhammad
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
d209f409-316a-43cb-aae0-537ed574a302

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-05-24 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-08-24 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-08-24 (about 2 years ago)

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