Yoast SEO <= 1.7.3.3 — Cross-Site Request Forgery
CVE-2015-2293Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.7.3.3Update to 1.5.7 or 1.6.4 or 1.7.4 or newer
Fixed versions are per release branch: update to the fix for the branch you run.
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.5
- CVSS
- 7.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:HAttack complexity- High
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-352 CSRF
- 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
- Affected≤ 1.7.3.3
- Patched in1.5.7 / 1.6.4 / 1.7.4
Update to 1.5.7 / 1.6.4 / 1.7.4 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.7.3.3. Version 1.5.7, 1.6.4, 1.7.4 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
- Update to one of the following versions, or a newer patched version: 1.5.7, 1.6.4, 1.7.4
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- 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, credited to Ryan Dewhurst.
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php in the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin before 1.5.7, 1.6.x before 1.6.4, and 1.7.x before 1.7.4 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that conduct SQL injection attacks via the (1) order_by or (2) order parameter in the wpseo_bulk-editor page.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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