CVE-2024-6158

EUVD-2024-47300
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)
Cross-site Scripting
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
4.8 MEDIUM
NETWORK
LOW
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CISA-ADPADP
4.8 MEDIUM
NETWORK
LOW
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 41%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
tiptoppressterm_and_category_based_posts_widget
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< 4.9.13
zephyrwestcategory_posts_widget
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< 4.9.17
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= Vulnerable software versions