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Newspaper Lite < 11.0 — Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2021-3135Published Jun 30, 2021 · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Affected: ≤10.3.9.1Update to 11.0 or newer

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Medium6.1CVSS 3.16.1CISA KEVNot listedAccessNo account needed

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Overview

Advisory ID: CVE-2021-3135
Product: Newspaper Lite newspaper-lite
Affected: ≤10.3.9.1
Fixed in: 11.0
Weakness: CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access: No account needed
Published: Jun 30, 2021 · updated Nov 13, 2026
Credit: Truoc Phan
Source: Wordfence Intelligence

Affected≤ 10.3.9.1
Patched in11.0

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

An issue was discovered in the tagDiv Newspaper theme 10.3.9.1 for WordPress. It allows XSS via the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php td_block_id parameter in a td_ajax_block API call.

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Remediation & mitigations

Update to version 11.0, or a newer patched version
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

Advisorywordfence.com

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Timeline

Jun 30, 2021
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.1
Nov 13, 2026
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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