CVE-2026-15425

Medium

Description

The Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Slug (post_name) in all versions up to, and including, 28.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires pretty permalinks to be enabled, as the exploit chain depends on get_permalink() embedding the stored percent-encoded post_name in the generated URL.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.4
Exploit probability—
ProductYoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI
PublishedJul 25, 2026
First seenJul 25, 2026

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
yoast Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AIv ≤ 28.0—

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