CVE-2024-6158
low-risk
Published 2024-08-12
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)
Do I need to act?
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0.20% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
4
CVSS 4.8/10
Medium
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (2)
Term And Category Based Posts Widget
Category Posts Widget
Affected Vendors
References (1)
27
/ 100
low-risk
Severity
19/34 · Moderate
Exploitability
1/34 · Minimal
Exposure
7/34 · Low