CVE-2021-24342: Jnews

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Jnews Jnews: before 8.0.6 (fixed in 8.0.6)

Published 2021-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.