Category Posts Widget, CVE-2024-6158

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-6158
Home page URL: Security reports for Category Posts Widget
Application: Category Posts Widget
Published on: 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 4.9.17.
Status: vulnerable