The NewsMash theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a malicious display name in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.71 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.
History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00037}

epss

{'score': 0.00041}


Fri, 06 Dec 2024 15:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 06 Dec 2024 08:45:00 +0000

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Description The NewsMash theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a malicious display name in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.71 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.
Title NewsMash <= 1.0.71 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2024-12-06T08:24:51.078Z

Updated: 2024-12-06T14:18:26.736Z

Reserved: 2024-11-05T11:59:29.153Z

Link: CVE-2024-10849

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-12-06T14:09:06.739Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2024-12-06T09:15:05.350

Modified: 2024-12-06T09:15:05.350

Link: CVE-2024-10849

cve-icon Redhat

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