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CVE-2026-10821: CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') in Yoast SEO Premium

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-10821cvecve-2026-10821cwe-74
Published: 09/02/2026 (09/02/2026, 14:16:44 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Product: Yoast SEO Premium

Description

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.

CVSS v3.1

Score 6.6medium

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
WPScan
Date Reserved
2026-06-04T07:41:54.109Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a983bc6acd9273b496145c6

Added to database: 09/02/2026, 15:07:50 UTC

Last updated: 09/02/2026, 15:38:07 UTC

Views: 4

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