CVE-2026-10821 PUBLISHED

Yoast SEO Premium < 27.6.1 - Author+ Arbitrary .htaccess Directive Injection to RCE

Assigner: WPScan
Reserved: 04.06.2026 Published: 02.09.2026 Updated: 02.09.2026

The Yoast SEO Premium WordPress plugin before 27.6.1 does not sanitize control characters from redirect origins before writing them to the site's Apache configuration file when the file-based redirect mode is enabled, and the redirect-creation endpoint is reachable by users with only Author-level access. This allows such users to inject arbitrary newline-delimited Apache directives into the root .htaccess file. On Apache servers that honour PHP directives, the injection can be chained with the user's own media upload (a polyglot image carrying a PHP payload) and an auto_prepend_file directive to achieve Remote Code Execution.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.6

Product Status

Vendor Unknown
Product Yoast SEO Premium
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 27.6.1 (excl.)

Credits

  • Tin Pham (TF1T) finder
  • Trong Pham (dtro) finder
  • Hao Ngo finder
  • WPScan coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') CWE