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).
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Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:15:00 +0000
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Weaknesses | CWE-79 | |
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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 | |
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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
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2025-01-07T15:13:12.432Z
NVD
Status : Received
Published: 2025-01-07T06:15:18.217
Modified: 2025-01-07T16:15:38.170
Link: CVE-2024-9638
Redhat
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