Animation Addons for Elementor – GSAP Motion Elementor Addons & Website Templates: Cross-site scripting
Animation Addons for Elementor – GSAP Motion Elementor Addons & Website Templates is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires at least contributor-level access. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed. The published affected range is <= 2.6.3.
- Component
- Animation Addons for Elementor – GSAP Motion Elementor Addons & Website Templates
- Plugin slug
animation-addons-for-elementor- Affected
- <= 2.6.3
- Safe version
> 2.6.3- Published
- Jul 10, 2026
This CVE was published Jul 10, 2026 and is one of 5 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Animation Addons for Elementor – GSAP Motion Elementor Addons & Website Templates to a release after 2.6.3, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Animation Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'weather_style' and 'move_direction' parameters of the Weather widget in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.3. This is due to insufficient output escaping in the Weather widget's render() function at widgets/weather.php:1246, where both settings values are placed into an HTML class attribute without esc_attr(). Elementor does not server-side validate widget SELECT control values against allowed options on save, so an authenticated attacker with Contributor-level access or above can submit a crafted save_builder AJAX request storing arbitrary values in the _elementor_data post meta. The stored payload renders unescaped on every frontend visit to the affected page (the Weather widget requires an OpenWeatherMap API key to reach the vulnerable output, which is the normal operational state for sites using this widget).
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N