CVE-2025-1453

Category Posts Widget < 4.9.20 - Admin+ Stored XSS

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

Category Posts Widget

CVSS v3.1 CNA

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

EPSS

0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 18th percentile

Published

2025-04-24

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6bf93a34-a19f-4266-a95d-033551db43e6/

Security advisories

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6bf93a34-a19f-4266-a95d-033551db43e6

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry