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

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 products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Category Posts Widget 4.9 earliest → < 4.9.18 4.9.18

Other CVEs of Category Posts Widget

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