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CVE-2024-6158

PoC
CVSS 3.1
4.8 medium
EPSS
<1%p37
Published
()
Modified
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)

Vendors
tiptoppresszephyrwest
Products
term and category based posts widget, category posts widget
Ecosystems
WordPress
Weakness
CWE-79
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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