PT-2026-26964 · Yoast · Yoast Seo – Advanced Seo With Real-Time Guidance/Built-In Ai

Published 2026-03-22 · Updated 2026-03-22 · CVE-2026-3427

NVD

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

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

The Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the the jsonText block attribute in all versions up to, and including, 27.1.1 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.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-3427

Affected Products

Yoast Seo – Advanced Seo With Real-Time Guidance/Built-In Ai

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3427 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/27.0/inc/class-wpseo-utils.php#L915 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/27.0/src/generators/schema/howto.php#L125 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3475308/wordpress-seo · Note
• https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/23035 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fee1fef5-5716-49e0-a04e-d0dae527fcfc?source=cve · Note