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).
History

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-79
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

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


Tue, 07 Jan 2025 06:15:00 +0000

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Description 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).
Title Category Posts Widget < 4.9.18 - Admin+ Stored XSS
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2025-01-07T06:00:06.592Z

Updated: 2025-01-07T15:13:44.110Z

Reserved: 2024-10-08T17:25:36.751Z

Link: CVE-2024-9638

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-01-07T15:13:12.432Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-01-07T06:15:18.217

Modified: 2025-01-07T16:15:38.170

Link: CVE-2024-9638

cve-icon Redhat

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