ColorMag <= 3.1.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Display Name

Description

The ColorMag theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a user's Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authentciated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.42% · top 63% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.

Weakness

• CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• themegrill · ColorMag

  • affected ≤ 3.1.6

References (3)

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a4b44d89-6f1e-4a23-91ea-e79fc3221183?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/colormag/3.1.6/inc/template-tags.php#L845 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=221537%40colormag&new=221537%40colormag&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2024-2500](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2024-2500.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2024-2500)

Record last updated 8 Apr 2026, 17:13 UTC.