| Title | Newspaper Theme 6.4–6.7.1 - Privilege Escalation |
|---|---|
| Author | pussycat0x |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can escalate their privileges to administrator level, allowing complete control over the WordPress site including content manipulation, user management, and potential site takeover. |
| Remediation | Update to Newspaper Theme version 6.7.2 or later. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.65374 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-10972 |
| CWE ID | CWE-269 |
| Fofa Query | body="wp-content/themes/mTheme-Unus/" |
| Tags | wpscan cve cve2016 wp wordpress wpscan wp-theme newspaper passive vkev vuln |
Newspaper Theme versions 6.4 to 6.7.1 for WordPress lacked proper options access control through td_ajax_update_panel, which led to a Privilege Escalation vulnerability.
GET /wp-content/themes/Newspaper/style.css HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.75.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.3 Safari/E7FBAF
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
🔗 Nuclei Template: https://github.com/packetinside/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2016/CVE-2016-10972.yaml
🦈 Packet Capture: ⬇️ Download cve-2016-10972.pcap
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