Vulnerability · Published Feb 28, 2022 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2021-25118Yoast SEO 16.7-17.2 - Unauthenticated Full Path Disclosure

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity information exposure in Yoast SEO from Unknown. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 5.6% (higher than 93% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)5.6%top 7.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack tooling1Nuclei

Official description

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 (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	Yoast SEO	16.7 – before 16.7*17.3 – before 17.3

Weakness: CWE-200

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2c3f9038-632d-40ef-a099-6ea202efb550 x_refsource_MISC
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2608691 x_refsource_CONFIRM