id: CVE-2021-25118 info: name: Yoast SEO < 17.3 - Unauthenticated Full Path Disclosure author: DhiyaneshDK severity: medium description: The plugin discloses the full internal path of featured images in posts via the wp/v2/posts REST endpoints which could help an attacker identify other vulnerabilities or help during the exploitation of other identified vulnerabilities. remediation: Fixed in version 17.3 reference: - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2c3f9038-632d-40ef-a099-6ea202efb550 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25118 tags: wordpress,cve2021,wp-plugin,fpd,cve,wp classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N cvss-score: 5.30 cve-id: CVE-2021-25118 cwe-id: CWE-200 requests: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?per_page=1" matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: regex regex: - '"path":"(.*)/wp-content\\(.*)","size' - type: word part: header words: - "application/json" - type: status status: - 200 extractors: - type: regex part: body group: 1 regex: - '"path":"(.*)/wp-content\\(.*)","size'