CVE-2024-6158

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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)

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8adb219f-f0a6-4e87-8626-db26e300c220/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-08-12

Updated: 2025-05-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00075