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CVE-2024-9638: 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

medium Affects category-posts-widget (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

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

Package
category-posts-widget (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<4.9.18
Fixed in
4.9.18
Severity
medium  CVSS 4.8
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (31.6th percentile)
Published
2025-01-07
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
NVD recordcategory-posts-widget (WordPress plugin) advisories

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