CVE-2024-9638

Description

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).

Reserved 2024-10-08 | Published 2025-01-07 | Updated 2025-01-07 | Assigner WPScan

Problem types

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 4.9.18
affected

Credits

Dmitrii Ignatyev finder

WPScan coordinator

References

wpscan.com/...rability/119d5249-48e4-429e-8a1d-ad112e0c966d/ exploit vdb-entry technical-description

cve.org (CVE-2024-9638)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-9638)

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