VulnCrest
Search
Create account
Report an incident
Radar sectionsDatabase
Check my site
WordPress plugin

Recent Posts Widget Extended <= 0.9.9.3 — Cross Site-Scripting

64b49f24-db48-4199-9ce2-3ea70c68d6afPublished · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤0.9.9.3Update to 0.9.9.4 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium4.8
CVSS
4.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:H Privileges required
High
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Recent Posts Widget Extended recent-posts-widget-extended

  1. Affected≤ 0.9.9.3
  2. Patched in0.9.9.4

Update to 0.9.9.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 0.9.9.3. Version 0.9.9.4 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Recent Posts Widget Extended.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 0.9.9.4, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Recent Posts Widget Extended to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

The Recent Posts Widget Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 0.9.9.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in a victim's browser.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Recent Posts Widget Extended

All 2
More vulnerabilities in Recent Posts Widget Extended
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via rpwe Shortcode
≤2.0.2No patch available
CVE-2025-6757

Same weakness (Cross-Site Scripting)

All Cross-Site Scripting
Other Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header
EZ SQL Reports Shortcode Widget and DB Backup≤5.25.25Update to 5.26.45
CVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission
Chatterbug Forms – Fast, Flexible WordPress Form Builder≤1.0.2Update to 1.1
CVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter
ELEX WordPress HelpDesk & Customer Ticketing System≤3.3.9Update to 3.4.0
CVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

How we use these sources

Search VulnCrest Radar

Jump to

Are you sure?