CVE-2026-3427Yoast SEO <= 27.1.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'jsonText' Block Attribute
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.21%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 89% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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 `jsonText` block attribute in all versions up to, and including, 27.1.1 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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 20 days later
· 20 days later
Published
- 17 days later
· 17 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.21% · top 89% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
yoast · Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI
- affected ≤ 27.1.1
References
References5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fee1fef5-5716-49e0-a04e-d0dae527fcfc?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/27.0/src/generators/schema/howto.php#L125 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/27.0/inc/class-wpseo-utils.php#L915 (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/23035 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3475308/wordpress-seo (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-14273 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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