CVE-2024-10848: NewsMunch <= 1.0.35 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-12-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The NewsMunch theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a malicious display name in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.35 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.

Affected products

desertthemes NewsMunch: through 1.0.35

References

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=250663%40newsmunch&new=250663%40newsmunch&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1a2b0ff4-9471-4fd0-ac1a-ed5b7b4af4ff?source=cve

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