CVE-2025-11241 (GCVE-0-2025-11241)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-03 01:56 – Updated: 2025-10-03 15:50
VLAI
Title
Yoast SEO Premium 25.7-25.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
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.
Severity
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-03 15:49 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-80 - Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2249 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Yoast SEO Premium Affected: 25.7 , ≤ 25.9 (semver)
Credits
Matthew Rollings
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