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3 vulnerabilities by zephyrwest

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)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6bf93a34-a19f-42… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Category Posts Widget Affected: 0 , < 4.9.20 (semver)
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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)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/119d5249-48e4-42… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Category Posts Widget Affected: 0 , < 4.9.18 (semver)
Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev WPScan
Show details on NVD website
To clipboard 

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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)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8adb219f-f0a6-4e… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Category Posts Widget Affected: 0 , < 4.9.17 (semver)
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Unknown term-and-category-based-posts-widget Affected: 0 , < 4.9.13 (semver)
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tiptoppress category_posts Affected: 0 , < 4.9.17 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:tiptoppress:category_posts:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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tiptoppress term-and-category-based-posts Affected: 0 , < 4.9.13 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:tiptoppress:term-and-category-based-posts:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev WPScan
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