XSS in Yoast Seo – Advanced With Real-time Guidance And Built-in Ai
CVE-2026-1293
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 `yoast-schema` block attribute in all versions up to, and including, 26.8 due to insufficien…
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
EPSS: 0.000 (14.3th 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
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8b2e7c2d-ed2f-439b-9cee-f2e5d…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/26.8/src/presenters/schem…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/26.8/inc/class-wpseo-util…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/26.8/src/generators/schem…
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-1293?
- CVE-2026-1293 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 2026-02-06.
- How severe is CVE-2026-1293?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.