CVE-2024-4984
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.
Published:May 16, 2024
Last Modified:Apr 15, 2026
EPS:May 16, 2024
EPSS Score:0.00474
CVSS Score:6.4
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Wordpress
Product
Wordpress
Wordpress
Wordpress
Vendor
Yoast
Product
Yoast Seo
Yoast
Yoast Seo
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
