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CVE-2024-6158

MEDIUM 4.8 CVSS 3.1
Published
August 12, 2024
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Analyzed
Reported by
contact@wpscan.com
Weakness
CWE-79
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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)

Affected products and versions

  • Unknown Category Posts Widget — Before 4.9.17
  • Unknown term-and-category-based-posts-widget — Before 4.9.13
  • tiptoppress category_posts — Before 4.9.17
  • tiptoppress term-and-category-based-posts — Before 4.9.13
  • tiptoppress term_and_category_based_posts_widget — Before 4.9.13
  • zephyrwest category_posts_widget — Before 4.9.17

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8adb219f-f0a6-4e87-8626-db26e300c220/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record