CVE-2024-10849

MEDIUM

NewsMash <= 1.0.71 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Display Name

Title source: llm

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. CVE-2024-56208 is a duplicate of this issue.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Product

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=250662%40newsmash&new=250662%40newsmash&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bb30dac-e0f3-43dd-a20d-9af6c7af3cb4?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 6.4

EPSS 0.0026

EPSS Percentile 17.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (1)

desertthemes/NewsMash < 1.0.71

Published Dec 06, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026