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 possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-44538 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 possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-79

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:54:54.267Z

Reserved: 2024-05-16T02:02:33.785Z

Link: CVE-2024-4984

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:10.330Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-16T02:15:09.003

Modified: 2026-04-08T18:21:58.417

Link: CVE-2024-4984

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T23:06:03Z

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