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 2024-05-09.

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 a…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.055 (90.4th 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 2024-05-09.
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.