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Yoast SEO <= 1.4.6 — Missing Authorization

7d33594b-e7b7-4685-97c1-37a2fecc1b8aPublished · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.4.6Update to 1.4.7 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium6.5
CVSS
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:L Availability
Low
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI wordpress-seo

  1. Affected≤ 1.4.6
  2. Patched in1.4.7

Update to 1.4.7 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.4.6. Version 1.4.7 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.4.7, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

The Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the reset settings function in versions up to, and including, 1.4.6. This makes it possible for unauthorized attackers to reset the plugin's settings.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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