WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2025-8451 Deferred

Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets: Cross-site scripting

Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets 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.

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 – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Plugin slug
essential-addons-for-elementor-lite
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Aug 15, 2025
Weakness
CWE-79 — Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

This CVE was published Aug 15, 2025 and is one of 29 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Patch or disable the affected component.

Update Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets 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 – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘data-gallery-items’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.2.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access 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

References

Primary and upstream sources