Category Posts Widget Plugin up to 4.9.16 on WordPress Category Posts Widget Setting cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Category Posts Widget Plugin up to 4.9.16 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Category Posts Widget Setting Handler. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-6158. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Category Posts Widget Plugin up to 4.9.16 on WordPress and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Category Posts Widget Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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)

The weakness was published by Dmitrii Ignatyev. It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-6158 since 06/19/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 4.9.17 eliminates this vulnerability.

Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• WordPress Plugin

Name

• Category Posts Widget Plugin

Version

• 4.9.0
• 4.9.1
• 4.9.2
• 4.9.3
• 4.9.4
• 4.9.5
• 4.9.6
• 4.9.7
• 4.9.8
• 4.9.9
• 4.9.10
• 4.9.11
• 4.9.12
• 4.9.13
• 4.9.14
• 4.9.15
• 4.9.16

CPE 2.3info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CPE 2.2info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CVSSv4info

CVSSv3info

CVSSv2info

Exploitinginfo

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Countermeasuresinfo

Timelineinfo

Sourcesinfo

Entryinfo

Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Discussion