CVE-2024-6158

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)

CVSS v3 4.8 MEDIUM

4.8^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.7 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8adb219f-f0a6-4e87-8626-db26e300c220/	Exploit Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:tiptoppress:term_and_category_based_posts_widget::::::wordpress::*
	cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget::::::wordpress::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2024-08-12 13:38

Updated : 2025-05-27 21:07

NVD link : CVE-2024-6158

Mitre link : CVE-2024-6158

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-6158

JSON object : View

Products Affected

zephyrwest

category_posts_widget

tiptoppress

term_and_category_based_posts_widget

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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