Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-2293

Title: Yoast Wordpress Seo Injection (SQLi/OSi)

SQLi

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-2293.

CWE Category CWE-352

Published Date Mar 17, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.52%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-2293: Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) 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 attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that conduct SQL injection attacks via the (1) order_by or (2) order parameter in the wpseo_bulk-editor page.

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://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://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-security-release/

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-2293 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.