CVE-2024-49240 HIGH

CVE-2024-49240: WordPress AB Categories Search Widget plugin <= 0.2.5 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Vendor Ajberasategui

Product AB Categories Search Widget

Weakness CWE-79 · XSS

Published October 18, 2024

Last update April 29, 2026

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CVSS base score

7.1/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction Required

Confidentiality Low

Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in ajberasategui AB Categories Search Widget ab-categories-search-widget allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects AB Categories Search Widget : from n/a through <= 0.2.5.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 18, 2024 CVE published

April 29, 2026 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49240 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html

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