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Advisories for spicethemes

CVE-2023-5362

The Carousel, Recent Post Slider and Banner Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'spice_post_slider' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
nvd@nist.gov 5.4 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N 2.3 2.7
security@wordfence.com 6.4 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N 3.1 2.7

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
spicethemes carousel,_recent_post_slider_and_banner_slider *
CVE-2024-44003

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in spicethemes Spice Starter Sites spice-starter-sites allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Spice Starter Sites: from n/a through <= 1.2.5.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
audit@patchstack.com 7.1 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L 2.8 3.7

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
spicethemes spice_starter_sites *
CVE-2025-1304

The NewsBlogger theme for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to a missing capability check on the newsblogger_install_and_activate_plugin() function in all versions up to, and including, 0.2.5.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
nvd@nist.gov 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 2.8 5.9
security@wordfence.com 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 2.8 5.9

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
spicethemes newsblogger *
CVE-2025-1305

The NewsBlogger theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.2.5.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the newsblogger_install_and_activate_plugin() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files and achieve remote code execution via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security@wordfence.com 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 2.8 5.9
nvd@nist.gov 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 2.8 5.9

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
spicethemes newsblogger *
CVE-2025-1306

The Newscrunch theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the newscrunch_install_and_activate_plugin() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security@wordfence.com 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 2.8 5.9

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
spicethemes newscrunch *
CVE-2025-1307

The Newscrunch theme for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to a missing capability check in the newscrunch_install_and_activate_plugin() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.4.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security@wordfence.com 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 3.9 5.9

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
spicethemes newscrunch *