id: CVE-2021-25118 info: name: Yoast SEO 16.7-17.2 - Information Disclosure author: DhiyaneshDK severity: medium description: Yoast SEO plugin 16.7 to 17.2 is susceptible to information disclosure, The plugin discloses the full internal path of featured images in posts via the wp/v2/posts REST endpoints, which can 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://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2608691 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25118 classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N cvss-score: 5.3 cve-id: CVE-2021-25118 cwe-id: CWE-200 epss-score: 0.00206 epss-percentile: 0.57883 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:yoast:yoast_seo:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* metadata: max-request: 1 vendor: yoast product: yoast_seo framework: wordpress tags: wpscan,wordpress,cve2021,wp-plugin,fpd,cve,wp http: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?per_page=1" matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: header words: - "application/json" - type: regex regex: - '"path":"(.*)/wp-content\\(.*)","size' - type: status status: - 200 extractors: - type: regex group: 1 regex: - '"path":"(.*)/wp-content\\(.*)","size' part: body