Vulnerabilites related to Unknown - Enhanced Text Widget
CVE-2024-0559 (GCVE-0-2024-0559)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-03-11 17:56
Modified
2025-03-20 18:48
Summary
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)
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