CVE-2024-6158
Published: Aug 9, 2024
Modified: Aug 13, 2024
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)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
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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