Meta News

Meta News has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2024; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 9.8, and the most serious one scores 9.8 out of 10. Severity breakdown: 1 critical and 0 high.

The most common weakness is PHP Remote File Inclusion, behind 1 of the records (100%).

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

All of these findings were reported by tahu.datar. Meta News is installed on roughly 600 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSCritical

9.8/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 9.8CVE-2024-50435

Meta News <= 1.1.7 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion

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Vulnerability Records

1 records


2024-10-24 00:00	Meta News <= 1.1.7 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion Meta News <= 1.1.7	`CVE-2024-50435`	9.8 Critical	tahu.datar	Yes

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Latestv1.1.8

Meta News

Author

Theme Horse

5.0(2)

100/100

Last Updated

2024-10-02 (2y ago)

Active Installs

600+

Downloads

18,962

Requires WP

Requires PHP

5.2+

Created

2021-12-23 (5y ago)

Meta News is a Multi-Purpose Magazine/News WordPress Theme. Meta News is specially designed for magazine sites (food, travel, fashion, music, health, sports, photography), news sites, shopping sites, personal/photo blog and many more. There are Front Page Template, Sidebar Page Layout, Top Bar, Header Image/Overlay/Advertisement, Social Profiles and Banner Slider. Also supports popular plugins like WooCommerce, bbPress, Contact Form 7 and many more. It is also translation ready. Get free support at https://www.themehorse.com/support-forum/ and view beautiful demo site at https://www.themehorse.com/demos/meta-news