CVE-2024-9638

The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.18 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).
Cross-site Scripting
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
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
WPScanCNA
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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: 1%
VendorProductVersion
zephyrwestcategory_posts_widget
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< 4.9.18
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= Vulnerable software versions
Common Weakness Enumeration
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/119d5249-48e4-429e-8a1d-ad112e0c966d/