# CVE-2026-1293: Yoast SEO \<= 26.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'yoast-schema' Block Attribute

- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-02-06 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- yoast Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI: through 26.8

## Description

The Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the the `yoast-schema` block attribute in all versions up to, and including, 26.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on yoast Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8b2e7c2d-ed2f-439b-9cee-f2e5d46121b6?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/26.8/src/presenters/schema-presenter.php#L49
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/26.8/inc/class-wpseo-utils.php#L915
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/26.8/src/generators/schema-generator.php#L188

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