CVE-2012-6692

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-06-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in js/wp-seo-metabox.js in the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin before 2.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the post_title parameter to wp-admin/post-new.php, which is not properly handled in the snippet preview functionality.

Affected products

Yoast Wordpress Seo: through 2.1.1

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132294/WordPress-Yoast-2.1.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jun/40
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75196
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032580
https://inventropy.us/blog/yoast-seo-plugin-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/changelog/
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-issue-with-post-title-field-xss-vulnerability
https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-2-2/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132294/WordPress-Yoast-2.1.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jun/40
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75196
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032580

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