CVE-2021-25118: Yoast Seo

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Yoast SEO WordPress plugin (from versions 16.7 until 17.2) discloses the full internal path of featured images in posts via the wp/v2/posts REST endpoints which could help an attacker identify other vulnerabilities or help during the exploitation of other identified vulnerabilities.

Affected products

• Yoast Yoast Seo: from 16.7, before 17.3 (fixed in 17.3)

Published 2022-02-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.