Vulnerability · Published Oct 3, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence

CVE-2025-11241Yoast SEO Premium 25.7-25.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Medium 6.4

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A medium-severity security flaw in Yoast SEO Premium. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 27% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 73.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The Yoast SEO Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions 25.7 to 25.9 due to a flawed regex used to remove an attribute in post content, which can be abused to inject arbitrary HTML attributes, including JavaScript event handlers. This vulnerability allows a user with Contributor access or higher to create a post containing a malicious JavaScript payload.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	Yoast SEO Premium	25.7 – through 25.9

Weakness: CWE-80 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Affected products (as reported)

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