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JNews - WordPress Newspaper Magazine Blog AMP Theme <= 11.6.6 - Unauthorized User Registration

Published Mar 5, 2025

Description

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.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

References (3)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Wordfence
Published Mar 5, 2025
Updated Apr 8, 2026
Reserved Sep 10, 2024
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Mar 5, 2025
NVD
Status Deferred
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner Wordfence
Published Mar 5, 2025
Updated Apr 8, 2026
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2024-53997