CVE-2017-16842: Yoast WordPress Seo

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/google_search_console/class-gsc-table.php in the Yoast SEO plugin before 5.8.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

Affected products

• Yoast WordPress Seo: before 5.8.0 (fixed in 5.8.0)

Published 2017-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.