Regina LiteWordPress extension · Machothemes
CVE-2023-27619
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedAuth (subscriber+) Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Macho Themes Regina Lite theme <= 2.0.7 versions.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceReflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Regina Lite WordPress theme (versions 2.0.7 and below) allows authenticated users with subscriber-level privileges or higher to inject malicious scripts through unsanitized input parameters.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Regina LiteWordPress extension
<= 2.0.7CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm Regina Lite theme is installedNavigate to Appearance > Themes in the WordPress admin panel, or inspect the wp-content/themes directory to identify if the regina-lite theme folder existsAffected if The Regina Lite theme folder is present in the WordPress installation
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Check the installed theme versionIn WordPress admin, go to Appearance > Themes and click on the Regina Lite theme to view its details, or open style.css in wp-content/themes/regina-lite and locate the Version: field in the file headerAffected if The reported version is 2.0.7 or lower
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Verify subscriber-level or higher user accounts existIn WordPress admin, go to Users > All Users to list registered accounts. Check if any accounts with Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor, or Administrator roles existAffected if At least one user account with subscriber-level privileges or higher is present in the system
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Inspect for unsanitized input parametersReview theme PHP files for GET/POST parameters that are reflected in output without proper sanitization. Examine common entry points such as search forms, filter parameters, and query string variables in the theme templatesAffected if User-supplied parameters from HTTP requests are directly output without sanitization or encoding
A user is affected if they have Regina Lite theme version 2.0.7 or below installed with at least one authenticated user account with subscriber-level privileges or higher in the system
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate the Regina Lite theme to a version newer than 2.0.7. If no update is available, implement proper input sanitization and output encoding on all user-supplied parameters in the theme's PHP files.
Fix this in Regina Lite
Scoped from the published advisory
- Consultation2.0 h
- Implementation4.0 h
- Testing3.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2023-27619 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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