Alerts of Security Risk w/ Yoast SEO, asking impossible update

  • Resolved ziegel

    (@ziegel)


    2 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    NinjaFirewall generated an alert email sent to me, stating there is a security risk with Yoast SEO version: 19.6.1, recommending and update to New version: 19.7 (Type: Security fix).

    Such an update is NOT available on the plugin’s webpage:
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordpress-seo/

    Can you please advise?

    Would you recommend an immediate disabling of that plugin?

    Email content is:

    NinjaFirewall has detected that there are security updates available for your website:

Date: September 20, 2022 @ 12:00:04 (UTC +0300)
Blog: https://example.com/

Plugin: Yoast SEO
Your version: 19.6.1
New version: 19.7
Type: Security fix

Don't leave your blog at risk, make sure to update as soon as possible.

This notification can be turned off from NinjaFirewall "Event Notifications" page.
    • This topic was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by ziegel.
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  • Thread Starter ziegel

    (@ziegel)

    Hi,

    Can you please refer also to the below Yoast answer to a similar question?

    Jeroen Rotty (@jeroenrotty)
1 hour, 50 minutes ago
Hey @ziegel,

Thank you for reaching out!

We released 19.7 earlier today but reverted the release due to a bug in certain setups where the login screen/URL are customized. There was no feature or security fix in this release so the current version of Yoast SEO is now 19.6.1. We’ll release another version later with a patch so the bug is fixed in our new release.

The notification of NinjaFirewall can be ignored.
    Plugin Author nintechnet

    (@nintechnet)

    No worries, it seems to be a false positive because the release was reverted. You can safely use the plugin.

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