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).
History

Wed, 07 May 2025 19:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Zephyrwest
Zephyrwest category Posts Widget
Weaknesses CWE-79
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Zephyrwest
Zephyrwest category Posts Widget

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 24 Apr 2025 06:15:00 +0000

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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).
Title Category Posts Widget < 4.9.20 - Admin+ Stored XSS
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2025-04-24T06:00:02.636Z

Updated: 2025-04-24T14:39:50.000Z

Reserved: 2025-02-18T18:07:12.875Z

Link: CVE-2025-1453

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-04-24T14:39:45.686Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-04-24T06:15:43.957

Modified: 2025-05-07T19:11:47.723

Link: CVE-2025-1453

cve-icon Redhat

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