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CVE-2024-8682: JNews - WordPress Newspaper Magazine Blog AMP Theme <= 11.6.6 - Unauthorized User Registration

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: 2025-03-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The JNews - WordPress Newspaper Magazine Blog AMP Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized user registration in all versions up to, and including, 11.6.6. This is due to the plugin not properly validate if the user can register option is enabled prior to creating a user though the register_handler() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as a user even when user registration is disabled.

Affected products

• https://themeforest.net/item/jnews-one-stop-solution-for-web-publishing/20566392 JNews - WordPress Newspaper Magazine Bl: through 11.6.6

References

• https://themeforest.net/item/jnews-one-stop-solution-for-web-publishing/20566392
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4b0d7ee7-a358-4487-a0cc-31ed810ae8bc?source=cve

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