Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-2292

Title: Yoast Wordpress Seo Injection (SQLi/OSi)

SQLi

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2015-2292

CWE Category CWE-89

Published Date Mar 17, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.78%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-2292: Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php in the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin before 1.5.7, 1.6.x before 1.6.4, and 1.7.x before 1.7.4 for WordPress allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) order_by or (2) order parameter in the wpseo_bulk-editor page to wp-admin/admin.php. NOTE: this can be leveraged using CSRF to allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands.

Impacted Vendors

yoast 1

Reference Links

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130811/WordPress-SEO-By-Yoast-1.7.3.3-SQL-Injection.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/73 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031920 https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/changelog/ https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7841 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36413/ https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-security-release/ http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130811/WordPress-SEO-By-Yoast-1.7.3.3-SQL-Injection.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/73 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031920 https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/changelog/ https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7841 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36413/ https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-security-release/

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-2292 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36413

View Code

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 17, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.