What is CVE-2024-10849?

CVE-2024-10849 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Desertthemes Newsmash, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-12-06.

How severe is CVE-2024-10849?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

XSS in Desertthemes Newsmash

CVE-2024-10849

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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (17.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Desertthemes Newsmash — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-10849?: CVE-2024-10849 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Desertthemes Newsmash, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-12-06.
How severe is CVE-2024-10849?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.