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Category Posts Widget
category-posts
total installs
40,000
total vulns
1
critical
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high
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medium
1
low
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vulnerabilities
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Category Posts Widget <= 4.9.19 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
medium
✓ patched
cve id
CVE-2025-1453 ↗
cvss score
4.4
cwe
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
published
Apr 3, 2025
The Category Posts Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.19 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.