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.
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Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-79

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2024-05-16T02:02:35.901Z

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:54:54.267Z

Reserved: 2024-05-16T02:02:33.785Z

Link: CVE-2024-4984

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:10.330Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-05-16T02:15:09.003

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2024-4984

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