Yoast SEO <= 17.2 - Full Path Disclosure

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2021-25118
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published October 5, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Fariq Fadillah Gusti Insani (fariqfgi)
Description

The Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Data Exposure in versions up to, and including, 17.2 via the /wp/v2/posts REST endpoints that discloses the full internal path of featured images from posts. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data which consists of full site path information which can be used to exploit other vulnerabilities.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wordpress-seo (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 17.3
Patched Version
  • 17.3
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