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Description

The Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object References in all versions up to, and including, 26.5. This is due to insufficient authorization checks in the Meta Search REST API endpoint that fail to verify post ownership. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to read sensitive SEO metadata from any post on the site via the 'post_id' parameter, including posts owned by other users, private posts, and draft posts.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-10 | Published 2026-05-27 | Updated 2026-05-27 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version
affected

Timeline

2026-05-26:Disclosed

Credits

NumeX finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-ae0c-4984-95f5-7040f8604c92?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...c/routes/meta-search-route.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...c/routes/meta-search-route.php

github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/22797

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3412286/wordpress-seo

cve.org (CVE-2025-14481)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-14481)

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