CVE-2018-19370

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 v3.0)
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: 2018-11-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

A Race condition vulnerability in unzip_file in admin/import/class-import-settings.php in the Yoast SEO (wordpress-seo) plugin before 9.2.0 for WordPress allows an SEO Manager to perform command execution on the Operating System via a ZIP import.

Affected products

Yoast SEO: Local: through 9.2.0

References

https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/11502/commits/3bfa70a143f5ea3ee1934f3a1703bb5caf139ffa
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/#developers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL141dcDGCY
https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/11502/commits/3bfa70a143f5ea3ee1934f3a1703bb5caf139ffa
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/#developers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL141dcDGCY

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