6.4

CVE-2025-11241: Yoast SEO Premium 25.7-25.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Deferred
Published 03-10-2025Last modified 03-10-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-11241 is a medium (CVSS 6.4) vulnerability in wordpress wordpress-seo-premium. EPSS estimates a 0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24.3% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 26.0.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.4/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.33%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 03-10-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-10-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The Yoast SEO Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions 25.7 to 25.9 due to a flawed regex used to remove an attribute in post content, which can be abused to inject arbitrary HTML attributes, including JavaScript event handlers. This vulnerability allows a user with Contributor access or higher to create a post containing a malicious JavaScript payload.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.33%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

24%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.33% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress1 product
  • wordpress-seo-premium≥ 25.7, ≤ 25.9 (fixed in 26.0)

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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