CVE-2024-6158 — Category Posts Widget (Free < 4.9.17, Pro < 4.9.13) - Admin+ Stored XSS
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 …
Published: 2024-08-09 · CVSS: 4.8 · CVSS 3.1
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)
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7