CVE-2024-4984

May 16, 2024, 1:03 p.m.

6.4
Medium

Description

The Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘display_name’ author meta in all versions up to, and including, 22.6 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.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress
  • up to 22.6

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

References

https://developer.yoast.com/changelog/yoast-seo/22.7/
https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/21334
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3079234/wordpress-seo/trunk/src/presenters/slack/enhanced-data-presenter.php
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/59bcd246-ca2f-4336-9a6e-89afe873ed25?source=cve

Tags

security@wordfence.com
2024-05-16
CVE-2024-4984

CVSS Score

6.4 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • Scope: CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: LOW
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: NONE

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Timeline

Published: May 16, 2024, 2:15 a.m.
Last Modified: May 16, 2024, 1:03 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@wordfence.com

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