# CVE-2024-8682: JNews - WordPress Newspaper Magazine Blog AMP Theme <= 11.6.6 - Unauthorized User Registration

> Unauthenticated attackers can register as users even when registration is disabled, potentially leading to unauthorized access.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 5 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-f8hf-x5x5-6vgr

## What is CVE-2024-8682?

CVE-2024-8682 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in https://themeforest.net/item/jnews-one-stop-solution-for-web-publishing/20566392 JNews - WordPress Newspaper Magazine Blog AMP Theme, published on 5 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The JNews - WordPress Newspaper Magazine Blog AMP Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized user registration in all versions up to, and including, 11.6.6. This is due to the plugin not properly validate if the user can register option is enabled prior to creating a user though the register_handler() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as a user even when user registration is disabled.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8682?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-8682?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8682 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-8682 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8682 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code:

- https://github.com/4minx/CVE-2024-8682 (github_poc): https://github.com/4minx/CVE-2024-8682

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8682 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-8682 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in https://themeforest.net/item/jnews-one-stop-solution-for-web-publishing/20566392 JNews - WordPress Newspaper Magazine Blog AMP Theme, published on 5 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8682 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: https://themeforest.net/item/jnews-one-stop-solution-for-web-publishing/20566392 JNews - WordPress Newspaper Magazine Blog AMP Theme. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8682/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8682/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8682
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8682
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8682

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8682/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.