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

6.5 CVSS

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)

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-0559

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.5

Problem Types

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Affected Products

Vendor: Unknown

Product: Enhanced Text Widget

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.24% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 47.74% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-18 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: poc

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0559
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b257daf2-9540-4a0f-a560-54b47d2b913f/
https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2024-0559/

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