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6 vulnerabilities found for Category Posts Widget by Unknown
CVE-2025-1453 (GCVE-0-2025-1453)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-24 06:00 – Updated: 2025-04-24 14:39
VLAI?
Title
Category Posts Widget < 4.9.20 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
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).
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Category Posts Widget |
Affected:
0 , < 4.9.20
(semver)
|
Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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CVE-2024-9638 (GCVE-0-2024-9638)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-07 06:00 – Updated: 2025-01-07 15:13
VLAI?
Title
Category Posts Widget < 4.9.18 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
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).
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Category Posts Widget |
Affected:
0 , < 4.9.18
(semver)
|
Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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CVE-2024-6158 (GCVE-0-2024-6158)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-09 06:00 – Updated: 2024-08-13 14:25
VLAI?
Title
Category Posts Widget (Free < 4.9.17, Pro < 4.9.13) - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
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)
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Category Posts Widget |
Affected:
0 , < 4.9.17
(semver)
|
|||||||
|
|||||||||
Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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CVE-2025-1453 (GCVE-0-2025-1453)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-04-24 06:00 – Updated: 2025-04-24 14:39
VLAI?
Title
Category Posts Widget < 4.9.20 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
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).
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Category Posts Widget |
Affected:
0 , < 4.9.20
(semver)
|
Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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CVE-2024-9638 (GCVE-0-2024-9638)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-01-07 06:00 – Updated: 2025-01-07 15:13
VLAI?
Title
Category Posts Widget < 4.9.18 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
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).
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Category Posts Widget |
Affected:
0 , < 4.9.18
(semver)
|
Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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CVE-2024-6158 (GCVE-0-2024-6158)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2024-08-09 06:00 – Updated: 2024-08-13 14:25
VLAI?
Title
Category Posts Widget (Free < 4.9.17, Pro < 4.9.13) - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
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)
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Category Posts Widget |
Affected:
0 , < 4.9.17
(semver)
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Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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