Elementor Vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2024-8742
5.4MEDIUM
Key Information:
- Vendor
Wordpress
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 13 September 2024
What is CVE-2024-8742?
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