WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Yoast SEO Premium 25.7-25.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The Yoast SEO Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions 25.7 to 25.9 due to a flawed regex used to remove an attribute in post content, which can be abused to inject arbitrary HTML attributes, including JavaScript event handlers. This vulnerability allows a user with Contributor access or higher to create a post containing a malicious JavaScript payload.

Affects Plugins

References

Classification

Type
CROSS FRAME SCRIPTING
OWASP top 10
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
stealthcopter
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2025-10-02 (about 6 months ago)
Added
2025-10-02 (about 6 months ago)
Last Updated
2025-10-03 (about 6 months ago)

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