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CVE-2024-0612: Content Views <= 3.6.2 - Authenticated(Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via settings

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-02-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Content Views – Post Grid, Slider, Accordion (Gutenberg Blocks and Shortcode) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Affected products

• pt-guy Content Views – Post Grid & Filter, Recent Posts, Category Posts … (Shortcode, Gutenberg Blocks, and Widgets for : through 3.6.2

References

• https://advisory.abay.sh/cve-2024-0612
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3024861/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aa4377a8-bcf4-45ba-824b-3505bd8e8c61?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3024861/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aa4377a8-bcf4-45ba-824b-3505bd8e8c61?source=cve

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