- 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)
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Secondary
- Base score
- 4.8
- Impact score
- 2.7
- Exploitability score
- 1.7
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-79
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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