CVE-2024-10849 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2024-10849

NewsMash <= 1.0.71 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

6.4 CVSS

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Matthew Rollings

References

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Affected Vendor

desertthemes

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Affected Software

NewsMash

Vulnerable Versions:

0

Timeline

Official Publish: December 6th, 2024

Last Modified: April 8th, 2026

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1189 Drive-by Compromise

T1059.007 JavaScript

T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie

T1213 Data from Information Repositories

T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service

T1491.001 Defacement