CVE-2024-6158
Medium
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)
SeverityMedium
CVSS4.8
Exploit probability38. percentile0.4%
ProductTiptoppress Term And Category Based Posts Widget
PublishedAug 12, 2024
First seenAug 12, 2024
Weakness typeCWE-79Cross-site scripting (XSS)
How to fix
Update
- tiptoppress term_and_category_based_posts_widget4.9.13 or later
- zephyrwest category_posts_widget4.9.17 or later
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| tiptoppress term_and_category_based_posts_widget | v < 4.9.13 | 4.9.13 |
| zephyrwest category_posts_widget | v < 4.9.17 | 4.9.17 |
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