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)
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Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:30:00 +0000
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Tiptoppress
Tiptoppress category Posts Tiptoppress term-and-category-based-posts |
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CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:tiptoppress:category_posts:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:tiptoppress:term-and-category-based-posts:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Tiptoppress
Tiptoppress category Posts Tiptoppress term-and-category-based-posts |
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cvssV3_1
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Fri, 09 Aug 2024 06:15:00 +0000
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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) | |
Title | Category Posts Widget (Free < 4.9.17, Pro < 4.9.13) - Admin+ Stored XSS | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: WPScan
Published: 2024-08-09T06:00:04.497Z
Updated: 2024-08-13T14:25:37.044Z
Reserved: 2024-06-19T09:51:31.613Z
Link: CVE-2024-6158
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2024-08-13T14:25:30.738Z
NVD
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2024-08-12T13:38:38.913
Modified: 2024-08-13T15:35:29.740
Link: CVE-2024-6158
Redhat
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