CVE-2016-10972

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2016-10972 · Published 16/09/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-10972 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting newspaper (tagdiv).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 10.8%, higher than 95.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 6.7.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
newspaper tagdiv	`< 6.7.2`	`6.7.2`

The newspaper theme before 6.7.2 for WordPress has a lack of options access control via td_ajax_update_panel.

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