{"id":2622,"date":"2015-03-13T09:58:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T09:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgis.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2015-03-13T09:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T09:59:13","slug":"wordpress-seo-by-yoast-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgis.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/03\/wordpress-seo-by-yoast-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress SEO by Yoast vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Action required if you use SEO by Yoast<\/h2>\n<p>A vulnerability has been identified in the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordpress-seo\/\" target=\"_blank\">SEO by Yoast<\/a> WordPress plugin which allows hackers to inject SQL. 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