CVE-2024-6158

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)

CVSS v3.1

4.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 37th percentile

Published

2024-08-09

Updated

2024-08-13

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8adb219f-f0a6-4e87-8626-db26e300c220/

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2024-6156
• CVE-2024-6159
• CVE-2024-6138
• CVE-2024-6164
• CVE-2024-6137
• CVE-2024-6165