CVE-2025-11241 | THREATINT

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-02 | Published 2025-10-03 | Updated 2025-10-03 | Assigner Wordfence

MEDIUM: 6.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)

Timeline

2025-10-02:

Disclosed

Credits

Matthew Rollings finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-ed1b-4c51-a463-c2691cb7168d?source=cve

developer.yoast.com/changelog/yoast-seo-premium/26.0/

sec.stealthcopter.com/regexss/

cve.org (CVE-2025-11241)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-11241)

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