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TI-2024-05707 Aliases CVE-2024-6158GHSA-pc7f-4968-m375

Category Posts Widget (Free < 4.9.17, Pro < 4.9.13) - Admin+ Stored XSS

Priority MEDIUM 55CWE-79Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · Low · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

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)

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0044 38th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by the CNA and NVD
Fix Fixed Category Posts Widget (Unknown): 4.9.17term-and-category-based-posts-widget (Unknown): 4.9.13

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
UnknownCategory Posts Widgetbefore 4.9.174.9.17Patch availableCNA
Unknownterm-and-category-based-posts-widgetbefore 4.9.134.9.13Patch availableCNA
  • Category Posts Widget VendorUnknown Affected before 4.9.17 Fixed in 4.9.17 Patch available CNA
  • term-and-category-based-posts-widget VendorUnknown Affected before 4.9.13 Fixed in 4.9.13 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:tiptoppress:term_and_category_based_posts_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*before 4.9.13VulnerableTiptoppress
cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*before 4.9.17VulnerableZephyrwest
  • cpe:2.3:a:tiptoppress:term_and_category_based_posts_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* Versions before 4.9.13 Vulnerable ·Tiptoppress
  • cpe:2.3:a:zephyrwest:category_posts_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* Versions before 4.9.17 Vulnerable ·Zephyrwest

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Category Posts Widget (Unknown) Fixed in 4.9.17
  • Fix · CNA term-and-category-based-posts-widget (Unknown) Fixed in 4.9.13

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-6158
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pc7f-4968-m375

References

Exploit 1

Sources

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