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GHSA-2R8J-R49X-M28R

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-02 15:34 – Updated: 2026-09-02 15:34

Details

The Yoast SEO Premium WordPress plugin before 27.6.1 does not sanitize control characters from redirect origins before writing them to the site's Apache configuration file when the file-based redirect mode is enabled, and the redirect-creation endpoint is reachable by users with only Author-level access. This allows such users to inject arbitrary newline-delimited Apache directives into the root .htaccess file. On Apache servers that honour PHP directives, the injection can be chained with the user's own media upload (a polyglot image carrying a PHP payload) and an auto_prepend_file directive to achieve Remote Code Execution.

Severity

6.6 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2026-10821 (GCVE-0-2026-10821)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-02 14:16 – Updated: 2026-09-02 14:57

Title

Yoast SEO Premium < 27.6.1 - Author+ Arbitrary .htaccess Directive Injection to RCE

Summary

Severity

6.6 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-02 14:48 UTC

CWE

CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
CWE-74 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

Assigner

WPScan mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2ddd8362-7248-48…	exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
https://yoast.com/yoast-seo-premium-may-26-2026/	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Unknown	Yoast SEO Premium	Affected: 0 , < 27.6.1 (semver)

Credits

Tin Pham (TF1T) Trong Pham (dtro) Hao Ngo WPScan

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