What is CVE-2024-4041?

CVE-2024-4041 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Yoast Seo – Advanced With Real-Time Guidance And Built-In Ai, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-05-14.

How severe is CVE-2024-4041?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-4041 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Yoast Seo – Advanced With Real-Time Guidance And Built-In Ai

CVE-2024-4041

The Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via URLs in all versions up to, and including, 22.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.008 (55.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Yoast Seo – Advanced With Real-time Guidance And Built-in Ai — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-4041?: CVE-2024-4041 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Yoast Seo – Advanced With Real-Time Guidance And Built-In Ai, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-05-14.
How severe is CVE-2024-4041?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-4041 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.