CVE-2019-13478 - The Yoast SEO plugin before 11.6-RC5 for WordPress does not properly restrict unfiltered HTML in term descriptions

CRITICAL

The Yoast SEO plugin before 11.6-RC5 for WordPress does not properly restrict unfiltered HTML in term descriptions

Published Jul 9, 2019

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 3.30%

The Yoast SEO plugin before 11.6-RC5 for WordPress does not properly restrict unfiltered HTML in term descriptions.

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Link	Providers	Tags
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-4946		Advisory
https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/releases/tag/11.6-RC5		x_refsource_MISCRelease Notes
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9445		x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 9, 2019

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Reserved Jul 9, 2019

Updated n/a

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 9, 2019

Updated Aug 4, 2024

Exploited since n/a