VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-6158

CVSS score4.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.44%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-08-12
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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)

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-79

Primary references