Vulnerability Details CVE-2024-6158
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)
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 3.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 4.8
Products affected by CVE-2024-6158
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cpe:2.3:a:tiptoppress:term_and_category_based_posts_widget:*
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.1.8
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.1.9
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.7.3
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.7.4
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.8
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.8.3
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.8.4
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.8.5
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.10
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.11
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.12
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.13
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.14
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.15
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.16
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.3
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.4
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.5
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.6
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.7
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.8
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cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:4.9.9