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CVE-2024-6158

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CVE-2024-6158

Published: Aug 9, 2024

Modified: Aug 13, 2024

PUBLISHED

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)

VendorProductVersions

Unknown

Category Posts Widget

affected
0 - < 4.9.17

Unknown

term-and-category-based-posts-widget

affected
0 - < 4.9.13

References

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