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WordPress Plugin: cds-simple-seo: CVE-2022-1628: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jul 29, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 5, 2026

Description

The Simple SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to attribute-based stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including 1.7.91, due to insufficient sanitization or escaping on the SEO social and standard title parameters. This can be exploited by authenticated users with Contributor and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts into posts/pages that execute whenever an administrator access the page.

Solution

cds-simple-seo-plugin-cve-2022-1628
Title
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