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).
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| Weaknesses | CWE-79 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | |
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Zephyrwest
Zephyrwest category Posts Widget |
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| Description | 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). | |
| Title | Category Posts Widget < 4.9.20 - Admin+ Stored XSS | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: WPScan
Published: 2025-04-24T06:00:02.636Z
Updated: 2025-04-24T14:39:50.000Z
Reserved: 2025-02-18T18:07:12.875Z
Link: CVE-2025-1453
Updated: 2025-04-24T14:39:45.686Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2025-04-24T06:15:43.957
Modified: 2025-05-07T19:11:47.723
Link: CVE-2025-1453
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