CVE-2024-6158 Information

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)

Reference

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8adb219f-f0a6-4e87-8626-db26e300c220/