WP SEO Plugin CVE AUG 2023: 67 public risks

WP SEO Plugin CVE AUG 2023

Be informed about the latest WP SEO Plugin CVE AUG 2023, identified and reported publicly. These breaches create even more problems and vulnerability exploitation with an immediate traffic drop from organic search and eliminating the potential for your target keywords. It is a +738% INCREASE as specifically targeted WP SEO Plugin Vulnerabilities compared to last month. Consider for your online safety, a WP/Woo PageSpeed AUDIT, – OR – switching with a TOP10LIST alternative WP SEO Plugin - OR - Hire professionals for managed WP SEO.

What is CVE?

TLDR: the details on how to hack a specific software is made public, forcing the vendor to provide a solution (patch or upgrade), that closes that specific vulnerability.

CVE is short for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system provides a reference method for publicly known information-security vulnerabilities and exposures. Read more on wikipedia.org: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, Common Vulnerability Scoring System, Common Weakness Enumeration.

If you are serious about your business, then you need to pay attention because your SEO is the most crucial factor that brings Free Traffic to your WordPress. The following cases made headlines PUBLICLY just last month in the WP SEO Plugin CVE AUG 2023 category:

404 to 301	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Auto Keyword Backlink	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Auto Location for WP Job Manager via Google	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Auto Robot – WP Autoblogging and RSS Feed News Aggregator	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
AutoSave Net	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Auto SEO META keywords (META tags keywords) optimization + WooCommerce	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Auto Set Admin Colour on Staging and Dev	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
BAVOKO SEO Tools – All-in-One WordPress SEO	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Bing Custom Search for WordPress	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Bulk Auto Image Alt Text (Alt tag, Alt attribute) optimization (image SEO) + Woocommerce	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Bulk Auto Image Title Attribute (Image Title tag) optimization (Image SEO) + Woocommerce	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Companion Sitemap Generator – HTML & XML	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Easy Schema - Structured Data & Rich Snippets	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Free SSL Certificate Plugin, HTTPS Redirect, Renewal Reminder – Auto-Install Free SSL	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
InternalLink Audit	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Internal Link Flow & Topical Authority & Topical Map	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Internal Linking for SEO traffic & Ranking – Auto internal links (100% automatic)	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Internal Link Juicer: SEO Auto Linker for WordPress	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Joli FAQ SEO – WordPress FAQ Plugin	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Local SEO For Divi & Gutenberg Blocks	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
LocalSEOMap	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Mass Ping Tool for SEO – WordPress ping list to get indexed faster on Google, Yandex, …	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Meta Tag Manager	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Multisite Robots.txt Manager	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Order Redirects for WooCommerce	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Postcode Redirect	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Premmerce Redirect Manager	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Premmerce SEO for WooCommerce	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Pro Broken Links Maintainer	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Process Dezrezone XML for upload	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Redirect 404 Error Page to Homepage or Custom Page with Logs	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Redirection for Contact Form 7	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Redirect Redirection	Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) on handle_installation function
Redirect Redirection	Missing Authorization (BAC) on handle_installation function
Robots.txt optimization	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
RSS Redirect & Feedburner Alternative	Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) on handle_installation function
RSS Redirect & Feedburner Alternative	Missing Authorization (BAC) on handle_installation function
Schema Pro	Broken Access Control (BAC)
Schema Pro	Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
SEO Booster	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
SEO Content Randomizer	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
SEO Landing Page Generator	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Seo Optimized Images	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
SEO URL Redirects LlamasApps	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
SheetPress – Manage WordPress Meta data with Google Sheets	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Simple Sitemap – Create a Responsive HTML Sitemap	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Simple Wp Sitemap	Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Sky Login Redirect	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
SSL Atlas – Free SSL Certificate & HTTPS Redirect for WordPress	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
SSL Zen – Free SSL Certificate & HTTPS Redirect for WordPress	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Thanks Redirect for WooCommerce	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Ultimate Bulk SEO Noindex Nofollow – Speed up Penalty Recovery Ultimate SEO Booster	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
VidSEO | WordPress Video SEO embedder with transcripts (Youtube & Vimeo)	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
WCC SEO Keyword Research	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
WooCommerce SEO Content Randomizer Addon	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
WordPress Auto SEO Plugin – Upfiv SEO Wizard	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
WordPress Expert Agent XML Feed	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
WordPress Schema Plugin For Divi, Gutenberg & Shortcodes	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
WordPress SEO Audit Plugin – WP Site Auditor	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
WordPress SEO Checklist	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
WP Disable Sitemap	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
WP Encryption – One Click Free SSL Certificate & SSL / HTTPS Redirect to fix Insecure Content	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
WP Google Street View (with 360° virtual tour) & Google maps + Local SEO	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
WP Link Bio	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
WP Meta and Date Remover	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Zipcode Redirect	Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

WordPress SEO Plugin CVE (public vulnerabilities) reported in 2023 so far

166

WHY IS WordPress/WooCommerce SEO CRUCIAL?

Organic Search Engine leads convert better! Every marketing channel has a different conversion rate. Based on our data, and many other SEO Experts, the visits from SEO have higher conversion ratios.

WORTHY OF INVESTMENT?

Optimising your WordPress / WooCommerce not only helps your site drive more and more free traffic from different search engines but yields higher conversion rates. Your site constantly transformed to a more user-friendly version for potential and returning customers because of SEO – this is the actual ROI. Working alongside search engines while ensuring a massive return on investment helps to build a trustworthy, profitable long-term business.

WHICH SEARCH RESULTS ARE ORGANIC?

ORGANIC search results are the ones that are earned through effective SEO, not paid for (i.e. not advertising, CPC or anything else paid). While paid advertising, social media, and other online platforms might generate traffic to websites, the majority of online traffic is driven by search engines.

WHAT IS VULNERABILITY KNOWLEDGE?

As time passes, vulnerabilities are discovered in your plugins, theme and the version of WordPress core you are using. Those vulnerabilities (or Security holes) ALWAYS become public knowledge sooner rather, than later.

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