CVE-2024-6158

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

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
UnknownCategory Posts Widget0 < 4.9.17affected
Unknownterm-and-category-based-posts-widget0 < 4.9.13affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References