CVE-2026-10821EPSS p41.6%
CVE-2026-10821CVE-2026-10821
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 6.6 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.51% probability of exploitation · percentile 41.6% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-03 |