CVE-2025-14481
The Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object References in all versions up to, and including, 26.5. This is due to insufficient authorization checks in the Meta Search REST API endpoint that fail to verify post ownership. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to read sensitive SEO metadata from any post on the site via the 'post_id' parameter, including posts owned by other users, private posts, and draft posts.
Published:May 27, 2026
Last Modified:May 27, 2026
EPS:May 27, 2026
EPSS Score:
CVSS Score:4.3
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Wordpress
Product
Wordpress
Wordpress
Wordpress
Vendor
Yoast
Product
Yoast Seo – Advanced Seo With Real-time Guidance And Built-in Ai
Yoast
Yoast Seo – Advanced Seo With Real-time Guidance And Built-in Ai
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
