Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Mar 22, 2026· Updated Apr 24, 2026
CVE-2026-3427
CVE-2026-3427
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 the the jsonText block attribute in all versions up to, and including, 27.1.1 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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References
5- github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/23035nvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/27.0/inc/class-wpseo-utils.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/27.0/src/generators/schema/howto.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3475308/wordpress-seonvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fee1fef5-5716-49e0-a04e-d0dae527fcfcnvd
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