CVE-2025-1453

Summary

The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.20 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, 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 < 4.9.20affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

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

Additional References

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