CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6692
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-06-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in js/wp-seo-metabox.js in the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin before 2.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the post_title parameter to wp-admin/post-new.php, which is not properly handled in the snippet preview functionality.
Affected configurations
• yoast wordpress seo (<= 2.1.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132294/WordPress-Yoast-2.1.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Exploit
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jun/40 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75196 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032580 www.securitytracker.com
- https://inventropy.us/blog/yoast-seo-plugin-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability/ Exploit
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/changelog/ Patch
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-issue-with-post-title-field-xss-vulnerability Exploit
- https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-2-2/ yoast.com
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132294/WordPress-Yoast-2.1.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Exploit
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jun/40 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75196 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032580 www.securitytracker.com
- https://inventropy.us/blog/yoast-seo-plugin-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability/ Exploit
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/changelog/ Patch
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-issue-with-post-title-field-xss-vulnerability Exploit
- https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-2-2/ yoast.com