CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:LCVE-2020-36721
Medium (6.5). EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The Brilliance <= 1.2.7, Activello <= 1.4.0, and Newspaper X <= 1.3.1 themes for WordPress are vulnerable to Plugin Activation/Deactivation. This is due to the 'activello_activate_plugin' and 'activello_deactivate_plugin' functions in the 'inc/welcome-screen/class-activello-welcome.php' file missing capability and security checks/nonces. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to activate and deactivate arbitrary plugins installed on a vulnerable site.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 61% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-284, CWE-862
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- colorlib:activello
- colorlib:bonkers
- colorlib:illdy
- colorlib:newspaper_x
- colorlib:pixova_lite
- colorlib:shapely
- cpothemes:affluent
- cpothemes:allegiant
- cpothemes:brilliance
- cpothemes:transcend
- machothemes:antreas
- machothemes:medzone_lite
- machothemes:naturemag_lite
- machothemes:newsmag
- machothemes:regina_lite
References
- https://blog.nintechnet.com/unauthenticated-function-injection-vulnerability-fixed-in-15-wordpress-themes/
- https://wordpress.org/themes/activello/
- https://wordpress.org/themes/brilliance/
- https://wordpress.org/themes/newspaper-x/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a9e4e989-8e55-4ea7-8f42-9f67cfab1168?source=cve