PT-2024-15658 · WordPress · Enhanced Text Widget

Dmitry Ignatyev · Published 2024-03-11 · Updated 2025-04-01 · CVE-2024-0559

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Enhanced Text Widget WordPress plugin versions prior to 1.6.6

Description The issue concerns the lack of validation and escaping of certain widget options before they are outputted as attributes. This could allow high-privilege users, such as administrators, to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. This is possible even when the unfiltered html capability is disallowed, for example, in a multisite setup.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.6.6, update to version 1.6.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-0559

Affected Products

Enhanced Text Widget

References · 6

• 🔥 https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2024-0559 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b257daf2-9540-4a0f-a560-54b47d2b913f · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-0559 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0559 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1767253913273561466 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/117222 · Telegram Post