ColorNews

ColorNews has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2024; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.4, and the most serious one scores 6.4 out of 10.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for ColorNews has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.

All of these findings were reported by stealthcopter. ColorNews is installed on roughly 1,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium

6.4/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 6.4CVE-2024-33540

ColorNews <= 1.2.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Vulnerability Records

1 records


2024-04-25 00:00	ColorNews <= 1.2.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ColorNews <= 1.2.6	`CVE-2024-33540`	6.4 Medium	stealthcopter	Yes

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Latestv1.2.8

ColorNews

Author

ThemeGrill

5.0(52)

100/100

Last Updated

2025-08-12 (1y ago)

Active Installs

1,000+

Downloads

275,194

Requires WP

Requires PHP

5.6+

Created

2015-10-07 (11y ago)

ColorNews is a perfect free responsive news style WordPress theme. This theme provides beautiful well-organized magazine look and feel, carefully designed to give stunning impression to your visitors. Represent your categories with different colors and make your site colorful and crisp. This theme is specially crafted for news, newspaper, publishing and magazine types of site. Got a new magazine site project? This theme will be an ideal fit. Get free support at https://themegrill.com/contact/ and check the demo at https://themegrilldemos.com/colornews/