CVE-2024-4041 Information

Description

The Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via URLs in all versions up to and including 22.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3078555/wordpress-seo/trunk#file129 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/trunk/inc/class-wpseo-admin-bar-menu.php#L601 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/trunk/inc/class-wpseo-shortlinker.php#L20 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/trunk/src/helpers/short-link-helper.php#L45 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/trunk/src/helpers/short-link-helper.php#L105 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4e04b161-3cd0-454d-869c-56f42bd8afb0?source=cve

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.1