CVE-2024-4984 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/59bcd246-ca2f-4336-9a6e-89afe873ed25?source=cve 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://developer.yoast.com/changelog/yoast-seo/22.7/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.4