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)
Products Affected
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| tiptoppress | term_and_category_based_posts_widget | * |
| zephyrwest | category_posts_widget | * |
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).
CVSS 3.x
| Source | Score | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 | 4.8 | MEDIUM | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | 1.7 | 2.7 |
Products Affected
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| zephyrwest | category_posts_widget | * |
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).
CVSS 3.x
| Source | Score | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 | 4.8 | MEDIUM | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | 1.7 | 2.7 |
Products Affected
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| zephyrwest | category_posts_widget | * |