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CVE-2024-3815: Newspaper <= 12.6.5 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Attachment Meta

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 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: 2024-06-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Newspaper theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via attachment meta in the archive page in all versions up to, and including, 12.6.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Newspaper: before 12.6.6 — fixed in 12.6.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Newspaper 12.6.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://themeforest.net/item/newspaper/5489609
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f0a332f-b761-44b3-86e8-82411455ba3e?source=cve
• https://themeforest.net/item/newspaper/5489609
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f0a332f-b761-44b3-86e8-82411455ba3e?source=cve

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