Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published May 16, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-4984

Description

The Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘display_name’ author meta in all versions up to, and including, 22.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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Affected products

Yoast/Wordpress Seoreferences
WordPress/Yoast Seollm-fuzzy2 versions
<=22.6+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=22.6
- (no CPE)

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

developer.yoast.com/changelog/yoast-seo/22.7/nvd
github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/21334nvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3079234/wordpress-seo/trunk/src/presenters/slack/enhanced-data-presenter.phpnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/59bcd246-ca2f-4336-9a6e-89afe873ed25nvd

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