CVE-2015-2293

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-03-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php in the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin before 1.5.7, 1.6.x before 1.6.4, and 1.7.x before 1.7.4 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that conduct SQL injection attacks via the (1) order_by or (2) order parameter in the wpseo_bulk-editor page.

Affected products

Yoast Wordpress Seo: through 1.5.6; 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.7.1, 1.7.2 (+4)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130811/WordPress-SEO-By-Yoast-1.7.3.3-SQL-Injection.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/73
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031920
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/changelog/
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7841
https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-security-release/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130811/WordPress-SEO-By-Yoast-1.7.3.3-SQL-Injection.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/73
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031920
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/changelog/
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7841
https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-security-release/

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