CVE-2024-6158
4.8
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)
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Category Posts Widget | 0 < 4.9.17 | affected |
| Unknown | term-and-category-based-posts-widget | 0 < 4.9.13 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
ADP Enrichment
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
- SSVC:
- Exploitation: poc
- Automatable: no
- Technical Impact: partial
References
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