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.
Published: 2025-10-03
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-32218 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.
History

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 03 Oct 2025 08:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Yoast
Yoast yoast Seo
Vendors & Products Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Yoast
Yoast yoast Seo

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 02:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Yoast SEO Premium 25.7-25.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Weaknesses CWE-80
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'}


Subscriptions

Wordpress Wordpress
Yoast Yoast Seo
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-03T15:50:01.453Z

Reserved: 2025-10-02T13:13:15.572Z

Link: CVE-2025-11241

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-10-03T15:49:55.330Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2025-10-03T02:15:30.483

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2025-11241

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No data.

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Updated: 2025-10-03T08:22:28Z

Weaknesses