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CVE-2024-4667: Blog, Posts and Category Filter for Elementor <= 1.0.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post and Category Filter Widget

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-07-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Blog, Posts and Category Filter for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Post and Category Filter widget in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied 'post_types' attribute. 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.

Affected products

• plugindevs Blog, Posts and Category Filter for Elementor: before 2.0.0 — fixed in 2.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: plugindevs Blog, Posts and Category Filter for Elementor 2.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blog-posts-and-category-for-elementor/trunk/widgets/post-category-filter.php#L885
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/blog-posts-and-category-for-elementor/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a24c2d7d-8df8-4a3a-a538-09e11ebc6dd5?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blog-posts-and-category-for-elementor/trunk/widgets/post-category-filter.php#L885
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/blog-posts-and-category-for-elementor/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a24c2d7d-8df8-4a3a-a538-09e11ebc6dd5?source=cve

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