CVE-2025-14481
Yoast SEO <= 26.5 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure via 'post_id' Parameter
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.29% · top 79% of all CVEs (6 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 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
yoast · Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI
- affected ≤ 26.5
References (5)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/04b2123d-ae0c-4984-95f5-7040f8604c92?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/trunk/src/routes/meta-search-route.php#L56 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/26.4/src/routes/meta-search-route.php#L56 (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/22797 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3412286/wordpress-seo#file163 (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)
- 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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