Pubnews

Pubnews has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2024; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 8.8, and the most serious one scores 8.8 out of 10. Severity breakdown: 0 critical and 1 high.

The most common weakness is Unrestricted Upload Of File With Dangerous Type, behind 1 of the records (100%).

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

All of these findings were reported by Kevin Murphy (knmurphy). Pubnews is installed on roughly 1,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSHigh

8.8/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 8.8CVE-2024-10578

Pubnews <= 1.0.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Installation

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Vulnerability Records

1 records


2024-12-05 16:47	Pubnews <= 1.0.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Installation Pubnews <= 1.0.7	`CVE-2024-10578`	8.8 High	Kevin Murphy (knmurphy)	Yes

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Latestv1.0.11

Pubnews

Author

blazethemes

5.0(7)

100/100

Last Updated

2026-05-08 (4mo ago)

Active Installs

1,000+

Downloads

27,811

Requires WP

Requires PHP

5.6+

Created

2024-07-24 (2y ago)

Pubnews is an exceptional news theme designed to satisfy all your requirements. It is customizer-based as well as fully compatible with Elementor builder. Pubnews theme offers extensive customization options for the header, footer, inner pages, and any part of the website. You will greatly enjoy diving into its live customizer, which incorporates all WordPress possibilities, such as post query parameters, real-time preview, expanded typography, and extensive style modification options. With a top-notch and intuitive design, this theme gives your website a professional news/magazine appearance. It includes six news layouts that can be customized at a granular level and added to any section as many times as you want. If you prefer creating your website with Elementor, we highly recommend you to use the theme with News Kit Elementor Addons plugin. With News Kit Elementor Addons and Elementor integrated into your website, Pubnews theme offers limitless possibilities in the world of drag and drop page building. Alternatively, if you don’t have any time to spare on building pages, you can easily import pre-built starter sites with a single click. No hassle! No complexity! Check out all the pre-built starter websites here https://blazethemes.com/theme/pubnews-free