What is CVE-2025-14481?

CVE-2025-14481 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Yoast Seo – Advanced With Real-time Guidance And Built-in Ai, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2026-05-27.

How severe is CVE-2025-14481?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Yoast Seo – Advanced With Real-time Guidance And Built-in Ai

CVE-2025-14481

The Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object References in all versions up to, and including, 26.5. This is due to insufficient authorization checks in the Meta Search REST API endpoint that fail to verify pos…

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

EPSS: 0.000 (9.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

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

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-14481?: CVE-2025-14481 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Yoast Seo – Advanced With Real-time Guidance And Built-in Ai, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2026-05-27.
How severe is CVE-2025-14481?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.