Category Posts Widget Plugin up to 4.9.19 on WordPress Setting cross site scripting

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Category Posts Widget Plugin up to 4.9.19 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-1453. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Category Posts Widget Plugin up to 4.9.19 on WordPress. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component 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 4.9.20 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).

The weakness was presented by Dmitrii Ignatyev. The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-1453 since 02/18/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 4.9.20 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• 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
• 4.9.17
• 4.9.18
• 4.9.19

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