Vulnerability · Published Aug 9, 2024 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2024-6158Category Posts Widget (Free < 4.9.17, Pro < 4.9.13) - Admin+ Stored XSS

Medium 4.8

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Category Posts Widget from Unknown. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 38% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.8Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 61.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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)

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	Category Posts Widget	0 – before 4.9.17
Unknown	term-and-category-based-posts-widget	0 – before 4.9.13

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8adb219f-f0a6-4e87-8626-db26e300c220/ exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description