CVE-2024-8682 (GCVE-0-2024-8682)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-05 08:21 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:50
VLAI?
Title
JNews - WordPress Newspaper Magazine Blog AMP Theme <= 11.6.6 - Unauthorized User Registration
Summary
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.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
https://themeforest.net/item/jnews-one-stop-solution-for-web-publishing/20566392 JNews - WordPress Newspaper Magazine Blog AMP Theme Affected: 0 , ≤ 11.6.6 (semver)
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Kubow
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