CVE-2025-14481 Missing authorization in Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI
Authenticated contributors can read sensitive SEO metadata from any post, including private and draft posts, due to missing ownership checks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-14481?
CVE-2025-14481 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI, published on 27 May 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object References in all versions up to, and including, 26.5. This is due to insufficient authorization checks in the Meta Search REST API endpoint that fail to verify post ownership. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to read sensitive SEO metadata from any post on the site via the 'post_id' parameter, including posts owned by other users, private posts, and draft posts.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14481?
How do I fix CVE-2025-14481?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14481 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-14481 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14481 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-5h48-r6mr-r747.