Description
The Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Slug (post_name) in all versions up to, and including, 28.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires pretty permalinks to be enabled, as the exploit chain depends on get_permalink() embedding the stored percent-encoded post_name in the generated URL.
Published: 2026-07-25
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Wordpress
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Vendors & Products Wordpress
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Yoast yoast Seo – Advanced Seo With Real-time Guidance And Built-in Ai

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:15:00 +0000

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Description The Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Slug (post_name) in all versions up to, and including, 28.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires pretty permalinks to be enabled, as the exploit chain depends on get_permalink() embedding the stored percent-encoded post_name in the generated URL.
Title Yoast SEO <= 28.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Slug (post_name)
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-25T06:50:05.480Z

Reserved: 2026-07-10T16:20:53.214Z

Link: CVE-2026-15425

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Updated: 2026-07-25T09:00:05Z

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