Elementor Vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2024-8742

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Essential Addons For Elementor – Best Elementor Addon, Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders
Vendor
CVE Published:
13 September 2024

Summary

The Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes within the Filterable Gallery widget. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers, who possess contributor-level access or higher, to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. As a result, these injected scripts can execute whenever a user visits the affected page, potentially compromising the security of users visiting the site.

Affected Version(s)

Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Addon, Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders * <= 6.0.3

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addo...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3148624/

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

D.Sim
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