SmartMag CVE-2025-64204
MEDIUMAttack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain low-privileged WordPress account
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DeliveryInject malicious script into stored field
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ExploitAdmin/user views affected page
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ExecutionScript executes in victim browser session
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ImpactHijack session or perform actions as victim
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account with at least low-level privileges (PR:L - e.g., contributor/author or any role able to submit content into the vulnerable SmartMag field), plus victim user interaction (UI:R): a privileged user must view the page where the stored payload renders for the script to execute. The specific vulnerable field/feature is not named in the available data. Limiting factors: attacker must already have a valid account (not remote-unauthenticated), the payload only fires when another user loads the affected content, and the site must run SmartMag version 10.3.1 or earlier. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity Stored XSS (CWE-79) in the ThemeSphere SmartMag WordPress theme, affecting all versions up to and including 10.3.1. The provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L, base 6.5) indicates a network-reachable, low-complexity flaw but one that requires an authenticated account with at least low privileges (PR:L) AND victim user interaction (UI:R), with a changed scope (S:C) reflecting that injected script executes in another user's browser context. The real-world signals point to LOW urgency: EPSS is only 0.17% (5th percentile), there is no CISA KEV listing (not actively exploited), and no public exploit (POC) is identified in the provided data. These low-risk signals are consistent with each other and with the CVSS profile - the privilege and user-interaction requirements meaningfully constrain exploitation. This should be treated as a routine patch-cycle item rather than an emergency; it is a genuine but not high-priority issue. No signals conflict, though note the source is a single Patchstack advisory (no independent NVD enrichment beyond the referenced record), so affected-version precision ('n/a through <= 10.3.1') depends entirely on Patchstack. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A low-privileged authenticated user (e.g., a contributor/author account on a WordPress site running SmartMag) submits content containing a malicious script payload into a vulnerable field. The payload is stored and later rendered when an administrator or other user views the affected page, executing attacker-controlled JavaScript in that victim's authenticated browser session. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and exploitation requires both an account and a victim viewing the content. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 08, 2026
Stored cross-site scripting in the ThemeSphere SmartMag WordPress theme (all versions up to and including 10.3.1) lets an authenticated low-privileged user - for example a contributor or author able to submit content into the affected theme field - plant persistent JavaScript that runs in the browser of a privileged user who later views the poisoned page. Exploitation requires both a valid WordPress account and victim interaction, so the attacker cannot trigger execution unaided, and the practical impact is script execution in the victim's session (session/data theft, administrative actions performed as the victim, or defacement of rendered pages) rather than direct server compromise. No public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation was identified at time of analysis, and EPSS is very low at 0.17% (5th percentile).
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch version is identified in the available data, so the first action is to consult the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/smart-mag/vulnerability/wordpress-smartmag-theme-10-3-1-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability and monitor ThemeSphere for a SmartMag release newer than 10.3.1, applying it as soon as it appears; because the theme is a first-party code path, there is no hotfix plugin equivalent and the safest interim step is to temporarily switch the site to a maintained, unaffected theme (with the trade-off of losing SmartMag's layout and any theme-specific content blocks). Additional compensating controls: review and, where possible, revoke content-submission or custom-field capabilities from low-trust roles (contributors, authors, and any subscriber-level front-end submission form) so untrusted users cannot write into the vulnerable field - note this reduces editorial workflow flexibility; audit existing posts, comments, and theme option values for injected <script> tags or event-handler attributes and clean any found; and deploy a WAF or WordPress security layer with XSS filtering in front of the site, accepting that signature-based XSS rules can produce false positives on legitimate rich content and are bypassable by obfuscation. Enforcing a Content-Security-Policy with a restrictive script-src is a further defense-in-depth option, but it frequently breaks themes and plugins that rely on inline scripts. Because exploitation requires an authenticated account, tightening user registration and role assignment materially reduces exposure while a fix is pending.
Affected ProductsAI
The ThemeSphere SmartMag WordPress theme is affected in all versions from n/a through 10.3.1, as stated in the CVE record and the Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/smart-mag/vulnerability/wordpress-smartmag-theme-10-3-1-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability). Any WordPress site running SmartMag 10.3.1 or earlier is in scope; no explicit CPE URI was supplied with the intelligence data, so version identification should be performed by inspecting the installed theme's style.css header or the WordPress admin theme list rather than relying on a CPE lookup. Sites that have already updated beyond 10.3.1, or that do not run the SmartMag theme, are not affected by this specific issue.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This is CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) manifesting as stored, or persistent, cross-site scripting inside a WordPress theme. WordPress themes routinely render user-supplied values - post content, custom fields, theme options, comment or profile data - directly into HTML templates; when an echoed value is not escaped with the appropriate contextual function (esc_html, esc_attr, wp_kses, etc.), attacker-controlled markup is persisted in the site database and re-served to every visitor of the affected page. The CVSS vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L indicates a network-reachable flaw requiring low privileges to inject and user interaction to fire, with Scope Changed because the injected script executes in the rendering user's browser context and can reach beyond the theme itself. The specific SmartMag template, option, or field that fails to sanitize is not named in the available data, so the exact injection surface cannot be enumerated from public sources alone. The supplied CPE/product metadata identifies the target as the WordPress SmartMag theme (vendor ThemeSphere), with no CPE string provided to pin an exact edition.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Stored XSS reachable over the network but requires a low-privileged account (PR:L) to inject and a victim to view it (UI:R); scope changes (S:C) as script runs in the victim's browser, yielding low C/I/A.
Primary rating from Vendor (patchstack).
CVSS VectorVendor: patchstack
DescriptionCVE.org
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in ThemeSphere SmartMag smart-mag allows Stored XSS.This issue affects SmartMag: from n/a through <= 10.3.1.
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Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
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