Medium severity4.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 12, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-6158
CVE-2024-6158
Description
The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.17, term-and-category-based-posts-widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.13 does not validate and escape some of its "Category Posts" widget settings before outputting them back in a page/post where the Widget is embed, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
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Affected products
5- cpe:2.3:a:tiptoppress:term_and_category_based_posts_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*Range: <4.9.13
- cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*Range: <4.9.17
- Range: <4.9.13
- Range: <4.9.17
Patches
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References
1- wpscan.com/vulnerability/8adb219f-f0a6-4e87-8626-db26e300c220/nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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