CVE-2023-40680 WordPress Yoast SEO Plugin <= 21.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

2023-11-3012:21:54

CWE-79

Patchstack

www.cve.org

cve-2023-40680

wordpress

yoast seo

cross site scripting

CVSS3

5.9

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS

Percentile

14.0%

JSON

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (‘Cross-site Scripting’) vulnerability in Team Yoast Yoast SEO allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Yoast SEO: from n/a through 21.0.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "collectionURL": "https://wordpress.org/plugins",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "packageName": "wordpress-seo",
    "product": "Yoast SEO",
    "vendor": "Team Yoast",
    "versions": [
      {
        "changes": [
          {
            "at": "21.1",
            "status": "unaffected"
          }
        ],
        "lessThanOrEqual": "21.0",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "n/a",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]