CVE-2024-49240

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Published 2024-10-18 · Modified 2026-04-29

CVSS v3

6.1

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

CVSS v2

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VIR risk

6.1

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

71%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
agustinberasategui	ab_categories_search_widget	`{"endIncluding":"0.2.5"}`

References

https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/ab-categories-search-widget/vulnerability/wordpress-ab-categories-search-widget-plugin-0-2-5-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

CWEs

CWE-79

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.