Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 25, 2024· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2024-8103
CVE-2024-8103
Description
The WP Category Dropdown plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'align' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected products
1- cpe:2.3:a:gcsdesign:wp_category_dropdown:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*Range: <=1.8
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
3- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7c959f9c-8ac4-4f59-9d93-8f96e650b02dnvdThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-category-dropdown/tags/1.8/category_dropdown_block.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3166152/wp-category-dropdown/trunk/category_dropdown_block.phpnvd
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