JNews - WordPress Newspaper Magazine Blog AMP Theme <= 11.6.6 - Unauthorized User Registration

5.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-8682
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published March 4, 2025
Last Updated March 5, 2025
Researcher Kubow

Description

The JNews - WordPress Newspaper Magazine Blog AMP Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized user registration in all versions up to, and including, 11.6.6. This is due to the plugin not properly validate if the user can register option is enabled prior to creating a user though the register_handler() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as a user even when user registration is disabled.

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Vulnerability Details for JNews - WordPress Newspaper Magazine Blog AMP Theme

Software Type Theme
Software Slug jnews
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 11.6.7, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 11.6.6
Patched Version
  • 11.6.7

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