CVE-2025-1453 in Category Posts Widget Plugin

Résumé

par MITRE • 24/04/2025

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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• Responsable: WPScan
• Réserver: 18/02/2025
• Divulgation: 24/04/2025
• Modérer: accepté
• Entrée: VDB-306053
• CPE: prêt
• CWE: CWE-79 (confirmé)
• CVSS: 2.4 (VulDB)
• EPSS: 0.00257
• KEV: non
• Activités: très faible
• Secteur: Hostingprovider

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1453
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1453
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-1453/