CVE-2024-10578: Blazethemes Pubnews

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Pubnews theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the pubnews_importer_plugin_action_for_notice() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install arbitrary plugins that can be leveraged to exploit other vulnerabilities.

Affected products

• Blazethemes Pubnews: up to and including 1.0.7

Published 2024-12-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.