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CVE-2024-6158 The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.17, term-and-category-based-posts-widget WordPress plugin before…

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 and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Category Posts Widget 4.9 earliest → < 4.9.17 4.9.17
term-and-category-based-posts-widget 4.9 earliest → < 4.9.13 4.9.13
category_posts 4.9 earliest → < 4.9.17 4.9.17
term-and-category-based-posts 4.9 earliest → < 4.9.13 4.9.13

Other CVEs of Category Posts Widget

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CVE-2025-1453 The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.20 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which… 4.8 Medium CVE-2024-9638 The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.18 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which… 4.8 Medium
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