CVE-2024-0559 (GCVE-0-2024-0559)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-03-11 17:56
Modified
2025-03-20 18:48
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
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)
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2024-0559/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b257daf2-9540-4a0f-a560-54b47d2b913f/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2024-0559/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b257daf2-9540-4a0f-a560-54b47d2b913f/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Enhanced Text Widget Version: 0   ≤
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