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)
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Category Posts Widget | < 4.9.17 | 4.9.17 |
| — | term-and-category-based-posts-widget | < 4.9.13 | 4.9.13 |
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8adb219f-f0a6-4e87-8626-db26e300c220/ exploit vdb-entry technical-description