CVE-2021-25118

Yoast SEO <= 17.2 - Full Path Disclosure

mediumExposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

5.3

CVSS Score

5.3

CVSS Score

medium

Severity

17.3

Patched in

840d

Time to patch

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Low

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<17.3

PublishedOctober 5, 2021

Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024

Affected pluginwordpress-seo

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f162e046-a7d3-4f2c-899d-6c46cb92c8ee?source=api-prod

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