May 7, 2024, 12:38 p.m. | Guru Baran

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A critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered in the popular Yoast SEO WordPress plugin, potentially putting over 5 million websites at risk of compromise. The flaw was found by security researcher Bassem Essam and reported via the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program. The reflected XSS vulnerability exists in all Yoast SEO versions up to […]


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