With 5+ million installations, Yoast SEO is incredibility popular. Yoast fixed a possible command execution by users with SEO Manager roles. The issue was corrected in version 9.2 on 11/20/2018.
What should you do?
Update the Yoast SEO plugin from the WordPress repository immediately.
How can you avoid future problems?
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