What is CVE-2024-4984?

CVE-2024-4984 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Yoast Seo – Advanced With Real-time Guidance And Built-in Ai, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-05-16.

How severe is CVE-2024-4984?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-4984 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-2024-4984

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 possibl…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.006 (71.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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-2024-4984?: CVE-2024-4984 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Yoast Seo – Advanced With Real-time Guidance And Built-in Ai, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-05-16.
How severe is CVE-2024-4984?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-4984 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.