WordPress Plugin 'Yoast SEO' < 22.7 XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 198220

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Synopsis

The remote WordPress application has a plugin installed that is affected by a XSS vulnerability.

Description

The WordPress application running on the remote host has a version of the 'Yoast SEO' plugin that is prior to 22.7. It is, therefore, affected by a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. An authenticated attacker with contributor-level access and above could inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the 'Yoast SEO' plugin to version 22.7 or later through the administrative dashboard.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 198220

File Name: wordpress_plugin_wordpress-seo_CVE-2024-4984.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 5/31/2024

Updated: 10/25/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Enable CGI Scanning: true

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-4984

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:yoast:yoast_seo

Required KB Items: installed_sw/WordPress, www/PHP

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-4984

Detections

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