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CVE-2024-2500: ColorMag <= 3.1.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Display Name

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The ColorMag theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a user's Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authentciated 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

• themegrill ColorMag: through 3.1.6

References

• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/colormag/3.1.6/inc/template-tags.php#L845
• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=221537%40colormag&new=221537%40colormag&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a4b44d89-6f1e-4a23-91ea-e79fc3221183?source=cve
• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/colormag/3.1.6/inc/template-tags.php#L845
• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=221537%40colormag&new=221537%40colormag&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a4b44d89-6f1e-4a23-91ea-e79fc3221183?source=cve

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