CVE-2021-25118

published 2022-02-28

CVE-2021-25118: The Yoast SEO WordPress plugin (from versions 16.7 until 17.2) discloses the full internal path of featured images in posts via the wp/v2/posts REST endpoints…

Priority P3 42 medium 5.3 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C L I N A N

EXPLOIT

The Yoast SEO WordPress plugin (from versions 16.7 until 17.2) discloses the full internal path of featured images in posts via the wp/v2/posts REST endpoints which could help an attacker identify other vulnerabilities or help during the exploitation of other identified vulnerabilities.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
yoast	yoast_seo	>= 16.7 < 17.3	17.3

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 5.3 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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