{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-40680 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2023-40680 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2023-40680 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Team Yoast Yoast SEO, published on 30 Nov 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-40680 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-40680 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Team Yoast Yoast SEO, published on 30 Nov 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-40680 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Team Yoast Yoast SEO. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40680/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40680/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-40680","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40680/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-40680","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-h5fw-7h4g-p3xc"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"An attacker can inject malicious scripts into the Yoast SEO plugin, potentially compromising user sessions or site integrity.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Patchstack","cpe":[{"product":"yoast_seo","vendor":"yoast"}],"cvss":{"score":5.9,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-79","name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation"}],"description":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Team Yoast Yoast SEO allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Yoast SEO: from n/a through 21.0.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"WordPress Yoast SEO Plugin \u003c= 21.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)","id":"CVE-2023-40680","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"xss","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"WordPress Groundhogg Plugin \u003c= 2.7.11.10 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)","id":"CVE-2023-40681"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"WordPress Master Elementor Addons plugin \u003c= 2.0.5.3 - Broken Access Control vulnerability","id":"CVE-2023-40679"},"products":["Yoast SEO"],"published":"2023-11-30","related":[{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-13478","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-07-09"},{"cvss_score":7.1,"headline":"WordPress Yoast SEO: Local Plugin \u003c= 14.8 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)","id":"CVE-2023-32300","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-08-23"},{"cvss_score":6.6,"headline":"Race condition in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-19370","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-11-28"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"WordPress Yoast SEO: Local Plugin \u003c= 14.9 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)","id":"CVE-2023-28785","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-05-28"},{"cvss_score":6.4,"headline":"Server-Side Request Forgery in yoast_seo","id":"CVE-2021-31779","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-04-28"},{"cvss_score":5.4,"headline":"Cross-site Scripting in the yoast_seo TYPO3 extension","id":"CVE-2021-36788","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-08-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-28","vendors":["Team Yoast"]},"summary":"An attacker can inject malicious scripts into the Yoast SEO plugin, potentially compromising user sessions or site integrity.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40680/"}