FKIE_CVE-2024-6158

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-08-12 13:38 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:17
Severity
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
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)
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8adb219f-f0a6-4e87-8626-db26e300c220/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
tiptoppress term_and_category_based_posts_widget *
zephyrwest category_posts_widget *
To clipboard 

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