CVE-2019-13478

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2019-13478 · Published 09/07/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-13478 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting yoast seo (yoast).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.3%, higher than 88.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 11.6 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
yoast seo yoast	`= 11.6< 11.6`	`11.6`

The Yoast SEO plugin before 11.6-RC5 for WordPress does not properly restrict unfiltered HTML in term descriptions.

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