# CVE-2024-0559: Enhanced Text Widget < 1.6.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS

> Admins can inject malicious scripts via widget options in Enhanced Text Widget, enabling stored XSS attacks in multisite environments.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 20 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-gq6r-j83x-w77v

## What is CVE-2024-0559?

CVE-2024-0559 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Enhanced Text Widget, published on 11 Mar 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Enhanced Text Widget WordPress plugin before 1.6.6 does not validate and escape some of its Widget options before outputting them back in attributes, 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)

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-0559?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Inisev Enhanced Text Widget.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-0559?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-0559 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-0559 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-0559 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-0559 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-0559 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Enhanced Text Widget, published on 11 Mar 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-0559 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Enhanced Text Widget. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0559/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0559/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0559
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0559
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-0559

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0559/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.