WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2024-2623 Modified

Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders: Cross-site scripting

Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.

CVE / CNA score 6.4 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders
Plugin slug
essential-addons-for-elementor-lite
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Apr 09, 2024
Weakness
CWE-79 — Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

This CVE was published Apr 09, 2024 and is one of 29 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Patch or disable the affected component.

Update Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

Source record

Technical description

The Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the countdown widget's message parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.11 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access or higher, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources