CVE-2024-10848: Desertthemes Newsmunch

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The NewsMunch theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a malicious display name in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.35 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Desertthemes Newsmunch: up to and including 1.0.35

Published 2024-12-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.