CVE-2026-3427: Yoast SEO <= 27.1.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'jsonText' Block Attribute
yoast · Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI
Affected: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 10% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
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 `jsonText` block attribute in all versions up to, and including, 27.1.1 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.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- yoast · Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AIup to and including 27.1.1
On the Atlas
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Weakness
- Cross-site Scripting
- Vendor
- yoast
- Published
- March 2026
CoverageNo articles yet
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References
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CVE recordcve.org
- Weakness CWE-79cwe.mitre.org
- wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fee1fef5-5716-49e0wordfence.com
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/27.0/src/gplugins.trac.wordpress.org
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-seo/tags/27.0/inc/cplugins.trac.wordpress.org
- github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/23035github.com
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3475308/wordpress-seoplugins.trac.wordpress.org