[FD] Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugin <= 2.1.1 Stored, Authenticated XSS

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Info
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Affects:         Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugin <= 2.1.1
Download URL:    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
Advisory URL:    
https://inventropy.us/blog/yoast-seo-plugin-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability/
Acknowledgement: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/changelog/

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Description
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The "snippet preview" functionality of the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin prior to 
version 2.2 was susceptible to cross-site scripting in the admin panel, related 
to the "metabox" functionality. This vulnerability appears to have been 
reported 2 years ago by someone named "badconker" (link: 
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-issue-with-post-title-field-xss-vulnerability#post-3575617),
 but the plugin author said that it had already been patched at the time.

The issue can be triggered by entering arbitrary HTML into the post title 
field, such as in the example URL provided below.

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Vulnerable URL
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http://example.site/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_title=<img onerror=alert(1) src=>

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Vulnerable Code
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try {
        str = jQuery('<div/>').html(str).text();
        str = str.replace(/<\/?[^>]+>/gi, '');
        str = str.replace(/\[(.+?)\](.+?\[\/\\1\])?/g, '');
} catch (e) {}

Link: 
https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/2.1.1/js/wp-seo-metabox.js#L1-13

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Fix
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Updating to the latest version (2.2.1 at the time of this advisory) will fix 
this issue.

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