CVE-2024-6158
Aug. 12, 2024, 1:41 p.m.
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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 infoSource
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