The Posts per Cat [Unmaintained plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'ppc' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
History

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description The Posts per Cat [Unmaintained plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'ppc' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Title Posts per Cat [Unmaintained] <= 1.4.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2025-05-16T02:21:42.706Z

Updated: 2025-05-16T15:44:47.776Z

Reserved: 2025-05-01T12:14:49.909Z

Link: CVE-2025-4169

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-16T15:44:39.528Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-05-16T03:15:21.423

Modified: 2025-05-16T14:42:18.700

Link: CVE-2025-4169

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