Newspaper Lite

Newspaper Lite has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2021; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.1, and the most serious one scores 6.1 out of 10.

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

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

All of these findings were reported by Truoc Phan. Newspaper Lite is installed on roughly 700 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The upstream project has not shipped an update in about 5 years, so new fixes are unlikely to arrive on their own.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium

6.1/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 6.1CVE-2021-3135

Newspaper Lite < 11.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

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Vulnerability Records

1 records


2021-06-30 00:00	Newspaper Lite < 11.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Newspaper Lite <= 10.3.9.1	`CVE-2021-3135`	6.1 Medium	Truoc Phan	Yes

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Latestv1.0.7

Newspaper Lite

Author

Theme Century

4.6(18)

92/100

Last Updated

2021-01-05 (6y ago)

Active Installs

700+

Downloads

110,819

Requires WP

Requires PHP

5.3+

Created

2018-12-11 (8y ago)

Newspaper Lite is a responsive newsportal style Free WordPress theme and this theme is mainly applicable for online magazines, newspaper, publishing, personal blogs and any kind of news sites. Widget base home page, multiple widget area, header layout, footer layout, Multiple layout of widget and many more. Please check demo on https://demo.themecentury.com/wpthemes/newspaper-lite/ and check https://docs.themecentury.com/products/newspaper-lite/ for docs.