CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.8. It affects WordPress.
CVE
CVE-2024-6158
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.8
EPSS
0.44%
WordPress
Original NVD 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)
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