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Newspaper Theme 6.4–6.7.1 - Privilege Escalation

Description

The Newspaper WordPress theme was affected by a Privilege Escalation security vulnerability.

Affects Themes

Newspaper
Fixed in version 6.7.2

References

CVE
CVE-2017-18634
CVE
CVE-2016-10972
URL
https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/06/unwanted-shorte-st-ads-in-unpatched-newspaper-theme.html
ExploitDB
39894

Classification

Type

PRIVESC

OWASP top 10
A2: Broken Authentication and Session Management
CWE
CWE-269

Miscellaneous

Submitter

ethicalhack3r

Submitter twitter
ethicalhack3r
Verified

No

WPVDB ID
5365ecca-93e2-4bfc-bd4a-6f61d7d75e96

Timeline

Publicly Published

2016-06-06 (about 6 years ago)

Added

2017-06-22 (about 5 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-09-22 (about 2 years ago)

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