CVE-2021-24342: The JNews WordPress theme before 8.0.6 did not sanitise the cat_id parameter in the POST request /?ajax-request=jnews (with…

PriorityP337medium6.1CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUIRSCCLILAN

EXPLOIT

EPSS

1.98%

78.0th percentile

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

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
jnews	jnews	< 8.0.6	8.0.6

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.1MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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