CVE-2019-13478 describes a critical vulnerability in the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress, specifically versions prior to 11.6-RC5, where it fails to properly restrict unfiltered HTML in term descriptions. This allows for unauthenticated remote code execution with a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in common repositories like Metasploit or ExploitDB, or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 11.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:yoast:yoast_seo:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | ||
11.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:yoast:yoast_seo:11.6:rc1:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | ||
11.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:yoast:yoast_seo:11.6:rc2:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | ||
11.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:yoast:yoast_seo:11.6:rc3:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | ||
11.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:yoast:yoast_seo:11.6:rc4:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.