CVE-2024-9638

MediumCVSS 4.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The Category Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 4.9.18 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).

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 4.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jan 7, 2025
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Analyzed

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