WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2024-4624 Modified

Essential Addons For Elementor Lite: Cross-site scripting

Essential Addons For Elementor Lite 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 5.4 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov
Component
Essential Addons For Elementor Lite
Plugin slug
essential-addons-for-elementor-lite
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
May 14, 2024
Weakness
CWE-79 — Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

This CVE was published May 14, 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 Lite 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 plugins for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘eael_ext_toc_title_tag’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 5.9.20 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, 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

NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources