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CVE-2025-1453

MEDIUM 4.8 CVSS 3.1
Published
April 24, 2025
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 4.9.20 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 products and versions

  • Unknown Category Posts Widget — Before 4.9.20
  • zephyrwest category_posts_widget — Before 4.9.20

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6bf93a34-a19f-4266-a95d-033551db43e6/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record