Newspaper: A security weakness
Newspaper is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Newspaper
- Plugin slug
newspaper- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 16, 2019
This CVE was published Sep 16, 2019 and is one of 6 known issues for this theme.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Newspaper to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The newspaper theme before 6.7.2 for WordPress has script injection via td_ads[header] to admin-ajax.php.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H