Yoast SEO Premium- When saving and editing product category in secondary language, a redirect rule is created

Overview of the issue

When manually editing a product category translation from Products > Categories, Yoast SEO Premium incorrectly created 301 redirects even when only the category description/text was changed (not the slug).
The created redirects has malformed URLs:
Old URL: http://site.com/product-category/test-es-wpml
New URL: http://site.com/http://es.site.com/product-category/test-es-wpml/ (double URL!)

Note: This is a visual error, these redirections do not cause navigation issues

Workaround

Please, make sure of having a full site backup of your site before proceeding.

• Open the …/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo-premium/classes/term-watcher.php file.
• Look for the function “protected function get_target_url(” , You’ll find it around line 241.
• Replace:

  protected function get_target_url( $tag, $taxonomy ) {
      // Get the term link.
      $term_link = get_term_link( $tag, $taxonomy );
  
      // Return early if the term link is not a string, i.e. a WP_Error Object.
      if ( ! is_string( $term_link ) ) {
          return '';
      }
  
      return str_replace( home_url(), '', $term_link );
  }
          

• With:

  protected function get_target_url( $tag, $taxonomy ) {
      // Get the term link.
      $term_link = get_term_link( $tag, $taxonomy );
  
      // Return early if the term link is not a string, i.e. a WP_Error Object.
      if ( ! is_string( $term_link ) ) {
          return '';
      }
  
      // Extract the path to handle WPML subdomain URLs (matches post-watcher behavior).
      $url = wp_parse_url( $term_link );
      if ( is_array( $url ) && isset( $url['path'] ) ) {
          return $url['path'];
      }
  
      return '';
  }