{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-6158 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6158 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2024-6158 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Category Posts Widget, published on 9 Aug 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-6158 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-6158 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Category Posts Widget, published on 9 Aug 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-6158 exists.\n\nAffected product: Unknown Category Posts Widget. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6158/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6158/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-6158","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6158/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-6158","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-pc7f-4968-m375"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Admins can inject malicious scripts via widget settings, leading to stored XSS attacks in WordPress sites.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"WPScan","cpe":[{"product":"term_and_category_based_posts_widget","vendor":"tiptoppress"},{"product":"category_posts_widget","vendor":"zephyrwest"}],"cvss":{"score":4.8,"severity":"medium","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-79","name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation"}],"description":"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)","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Category Posts Widget (Free \u003c 4.9.17, Pro \u003c 4.9.13) - Admin+ Stored XSS","id":"CVE-2024-6158","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"xss","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Push Notification for Post and BuddyPress \u003c=1.93 - Multiple Unauthenticated SQLi","id":"CVE-2024-6159"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Null dereference in RobotWare 6","id":"CVE-2024-6157"},"products":["Category Posts Widget","term-and-category-based-posts-widget"],"published":"2024-08-09","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"poc","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-13","vendors":["Unknown"]},"summary":"Admins can inject malicious scripts via widget settings, leading to stored XSS attacks in WordPress sites.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6158/"}