Yoast SEO Plugin up to 11.6-RC4 on WordPress Term Description input validation
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A vulnerability was found in Yoast SEO Plugin up to 11.6-RC4 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Term Description Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does
not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the
properties that are required to process the data safely and
correctly. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
The Yoast SEO plugin before 11.6-RC5 for WordPress does not properly restrict unfiltered HTML in term descriptions.
The weakness was released 07/09/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-13478 since 07/09/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.
Upgrading to version 11.6-RC5 eliminates this vulnerability.
Product
Type
Name
Version
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 9.0VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.9
VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.0
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NVD Base Score: 9.8
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CNA Base Score: 9.9
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Exploiting
Class: Input validationCWE: CWE-20
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: No
Remote: Yes
Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Yoast SEO Plugin 11.6-RC5
Timeline
07/09/2019 🔍07/09/2019 🔍
07/10/2019 🔍
10/24/2023 🔍
Sources
Advisory: github.comStatus: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2019-13478 (🔍)
Entry
Created: 07/10/2019 12:48Updated: 10/24/2023 06:22
Changes: 07/10/2019 12:48 (36), 07/03/2020 09:24 (4), 10/24/2023 06:12 (3), 10/24/2023 06:22 (28)
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