Is newspaper (WordPress plugin) vulnerable?

WordPress newspaper has 3 known advisories in the phpwarden feed. Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28.

3advisories

1critical

0on CISA KEV

0no fix recorded

CVE	Title	Severity	CVSS	Affected	Fixed in
CVE-2022-3477	The tagDiv Composer WordPress plugin before 3.5, required by the Newspaper WordPress theme before 12.1 and Newsmag WordPress theme before 5.	critical	9.8	`<12.1`	`12.1`
CVE-2022-2627	The Newspaper WordPress theme before 12 does not sanitise a parameter before outputting it back in an HTML attribute via an AJAX action, lea	medium	6.1	`<12`	`12`
CVE-2022-2167	The Newspaper WordPress theme before 12 does not sanitise a parameter before outputting it back in an HTML attribute via an AJAX action, lea	medium	6.1	`<12`	`12`

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