The Featured Posts by BestWebSoft plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘category’ parameter in versions before 1.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
This vulnerability is a medium severity with CVSS 6.1 Cross-Site Scripting issue affecting the Plugin Featured Posts by BestWebSoft. It affects Versions before 1.0.1 and is fixed in 1.0.1.
the tracked vulnerability is tracked for the Plugin Featured Posts by BestWebSoft as medium severity with CVSS 6.1. The affected range is Versions before 1.0.1. Update Featured Posts by BestWebSoft to 1.0.1 or newer where that version is compatible with the site.
| Software Type | Plugin |
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| Software Slug |
bws-featured-posts
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| CVE | No linked CVE entry. |
| Patched Versions |
1.0.1
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| Affected Versions |
Versions before 1.0.1
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