CVE-2024-6158

Aug. 12, 2024, 1:41 p.m.

Product(s) Impacted

Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin

  • before 4.9.17

term-and-category-based-posts-widget WordPress plugin

  • before 4.9.13

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)

Weaknesses

Date

Published: Aug. 12, 2024, 1:38 p.m.

Last Modified: Aug. 12, 2024, 1:41 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been marked for Analysis. Normally once in this state the CVE will be analyzed by NVD staff within 24 hours.

More info

Source

contact@wpscan.com

References