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Category Posts Widget, CVE-2025-1453

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-1453

Application

Category Posts Widget

Published on
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 4.9.20.
Status
vulnerable