WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2026-15145 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. The published affected range is <= 6.6.11.

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
<= 6.6.11
Safe version
> 6.6.11
Published
Jul 21, 2026
Weakness
CWE-79 — Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

This CVE was published Jul 21, 2026 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 after 6.6.11, 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 Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Fancy Text Widget in all versions up to, and including, 6.6.11 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