CVE-2024-0559 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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)

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Themecheck	Enhanced Text Widget

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References

Link	Providers
https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2024-0559/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b257daf2-9540-4a0f-a560-54b47d2b913f/

History

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Themecheck Themecheck enhanced Text Widget
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:themecheck:enhanced_text_widget::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Themecheck Themecheck enhanced Text Widget
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-03-11T17:56:05.059Z

Updated: 2025-03-20T18:48:42.335Z

Reserved: 2024-01-15T10:56:42.798Z

Link: CVE-2024-0559

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:11:35.226Z

NVD

Status : Undergoing Analysis

Published: 2024-03-11T18:15:17.743

Modified: 2025-03-20T19:15:20.330

Link: CVE-2024-0559

Redhat

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