PT-2017-14589 · Yoast · Yoast Seo Plugin

Published 2017-11-16 · Updated 2017-12-03 · CVE-2017-16842

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Yoast SEO plugin versions prior to 5.8.0

Description The issue is related to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.8.0, update to version 5.8.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-16842

Affected Products

Yoast Seo Plugin

References · 5

• 🔥 https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/145080/WordPress-Yoast-SEO-Cross-Site-Scripting.html · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16842 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16842 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/#developers · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1766831/wordpress-seo/trunk/admin/google_search_console/class-gsc-table.php · Note