Yoast SEO Plugin up to 11.6-RC4 on WordPress Term Description privilege escalation

A vulnerability was found in Yoast SEO Plugin up to 11.6-RC4 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Term Description Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 07/09/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-13478 since 07/09/2019. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 11.6-RC5 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.3

VulDB Base Score: ≈5.5
VulDB Temp Score: ≈5.3
VulDB Vector: 🔒
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

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Class: Privilege escalation (CWE-269)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined

Price Prediction: 🔍
Current Price Estimation: 🔒

Threat Intelligenceinfoedit

Threat: 🔍
Adversaries: 🔍
Geopolitics: 🔍
Economy: 🔍
Predictions: 🔍
Remediation: 🔍Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

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Upgrade: Yoast SEO Plugin 11.6-RC5

07/09/2019 Advisory disclosed
07/09/2019 +0 days CVE assigned
07/10/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
07/10/2019 +0 days VulDB last update
CVE: CVE-2019-13478 (🔒)Created: 07/10/2019 12:48 PM
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