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JNews — WordPress Newspaper Magazine Blog AMP Theme < 8.0.6 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2021-24342Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <8.0.6Update to 8.0.6 or newer

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Medium6.1CVSS 3.16.1CISA KEVNot listedAccessNo account needed
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Overview

Advisory ID
CVE-2021-24342
Affected
<8.0.6
Fixed in
8.0.6
Required access
No account needed
Published
· updated
Credit
Truoc Phan
  1. Affected< 8.0.6
  2. Patched in8.0.6

Update to 8.0.6 or newer.

6.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None

The JNews WordPress theme before 8.0.6 did not sanitise the cat_id parameter in the POST request /?ajax-request=jnews (with action=jnews_build_mega_category_*), leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue.

Not sure which version you run? Run a passive check — it reads public files only.

Remediation & mitigations

  1. Update to version 8.0.6, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.

References & provenance

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.1

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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