The Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the the `yoast-schema` block attribute in all versions up to, and including, 26.8 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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Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:45:00 +0000
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| Description | The Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the the `yoast-schema` block attribute in all versions up to, and including, 26.8 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. | |
| Title | Yoast SEO <= 26.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'yoast-schema' Block Attribute | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-79 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published:
Updated: 2026-02-06T12:27:32.895Z
Reserved: 2026-01-21T16:53:09.134Z
Link: CVE-2026-1293
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-02-06T12:16:25.133
Modified: 2026-02-06T12:16:25.133
Link: CVE-2026-1293
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