CVE-2024-4984: Yoast Seo – Advanced Seo With Real-Time Guidance And Built-In Ai

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Yoast Yoast Seo – Advanced Seo With Real-Time Guidance And Built-In Ai: up to and including 22.6

Published 2024-05-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.