CVE-2024-10849: NewsMash <= 1.0.71 - 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: 2024-12-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

desertthemes NewsMash: through 1.0.71

References

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=250662%40newsmash&new=250662%40newsmash&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bb30dac-e0f3-43dd-a20d-9af6c7af3cb4?source=cve

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