CVE-2025-11241
Yoast SEO Premium 25.7-25.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.4 Medium
- Published
- Oct 3, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 3, 2025
- Reserved
- Oct 2, 2025
Description
The Yoast SEO Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions 25.7 to 25.9 due to a flawed regex used to remove an attribute in post content, which can be abused to inject arbitrary HTML attributes, including JavaScript event handlers. This vulnerability allows a user with Contributor access or higher to create a post containing a malicious JavaScript payload.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.4 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Yoast SEO Premiumn/a |
|
References
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