CVE-2021-24342CWE-79

CVE-2021-24342: vulnerability in JNews

JNews < 8.0.6 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

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18Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 2.0%
exploitation probability
2.0%top 20% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
Unknown · JNews