CVE-2026-1293

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Description

The Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the the `yoast-schema` block attribute in all versions up to, and including, 26.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8b2e7c2d-ed2f-439b-9cee-f2e5d46121b6?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/26.8/src/presenters/schema-presenter.php#L49

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/26.8/src/generators/schema-generator.php#L188

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/26.8/inc/class-wpseo-utils.php#L915

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-06

Updated: 2026-02-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0003