Vulnerabilities and security researches forcategory-posts category-posts

Jul 28, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-6158
Home page URL: Security reports for Category Posts Widget
Application: Category Posts Widget
Date: Aug 12, 2024
Research 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 versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

Jan 08, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-9638
Home page URL: Security reports for Category Posts Widget
Application: Category Posts Widget
Date: Jan 07, 2025
Research 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).
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

May 07, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-1453
Home page URL: Security reports for Category Posts Widget
Application: Category Posts Widget
Date: Apr 24, 2025
Research Description: The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.20 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).
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable