Description
The Enhanced Text Widget WordPress plugin before 1.6.6 does not validate and escape some of its Widget options before outputting them back in attributes, 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)
Published: 2024-03-11
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-16352 The Enhanced Text Widget WordPress plugin before 1.6.6 does not validate and escape some of its Widget options before outputting them back in attributes, 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)
History

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Inisev
Inisev enhanced Text Widget
Weaknesses CWE-79
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:inisev:enhanced_text_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Inisev
Inisev enhanced Text Widget

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Themecheck
Themecheck enhanced Text Widget
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:themecheck:enhanced_text_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Themecheck
Themecheck enhanced Text Widget
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Inisev Enhanced Text Widget
Themecheck Enhanced Text Widget
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-03-20T18:48:42.335Z

Reserved: 2024-01-15T10:56:42.798Z

Link: CVE-2024-0559

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:11:35.226Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-03-11T18:15:17.743

Modified: 2025-04-01T15:37:13.910

Link: CVE-2024-0559

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses