Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in aThemes Addons for Elementor Plugin

CVE-2025-8149

What is CVE-2025-8149?

The aThemes Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress suffers from a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability found in its Countdown widget. This issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping for user-supplied attributes. It allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or above to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages, which will execute whenever a user accesses that page. Ensuring proper security measures and timely updates is crucial to mitigating this risk.

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