Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 9, 2024· Updated Aug 13, 2024
Category Posts Widget (Free < 4.9.17, Pro < 4.9.13) - Admin+ Stored XSS
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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References
1- wpscan.com/vulnerability/8adb219f-f0a6-4e87-8626-db26e300c220/mitreexploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
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