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Elementor Header & Footer Builder

Plugin description

Elementor Header & Footer Builder builds and assigns custom headers, footers, and other template sections using Elementor within WordPress.

Elementor Header & Footer Builder (header-footer-elementor) is a WordPress plugin with 11 published CVE records in this archive. The latest tracked vulnerability was published Jul 22, 2026; the highest published CVSS base score is 6.5.

Plugin slug: header-footer-elementor

Latest vulnerability

CVE-2026-15787: Ultimate Addons navigation icons allow contributor stored XSS

Ultimate Addons for Elementor 2.9.1 and earlier does not safely handle the Navigation Menu widget's data-toggle-icon and data-close-icon attributes. A contributor can store an HTML-entity-encoded payload that survives WordPress sanitization, is decoded by the browser, and is inserted as markup by jQuery when a visitor opens the affected page.

PublishedJul 22, 2026

Known safe version2.9.2

Published vulnerabilities for header-footer-elementor
		Safe version
Jul 22, 2026	CVE-2026-15787 Ultimate Addons navigation icons allow contributor stored XSS Ultimate Addons for Elementor 2.9.1 and earlier does not safely handle the Navigation Menu widget's data-toggle-icon and data-close-icon attributes. A contributor can store an HTML-entity-encoded payload that survives WordPress sanitization, is decoded by the browser, and is inserted as markup by jQuery when a visitor opens the affected page.	2.9.2	CVE6.4
Aug 02, 2025	CVE-2025-8488 Ultimate Addons for Elementor (Formerly Elementor Header & Footer Builder): A security weakness Ultimate Addons for Elementor (Formerly Elementor Header & Footer Builder) is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires an authenticated subscriber account. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.	See mitigation notes	CVE4.3
Dec 23, 2024	CVE-2024-11230 Elementor Header & Footer Builder: Cross-site scripting Elementor Header & Footer Builder is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires an authenticated contributor account. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.	See mitigation notes	CVE6.4
Nov 08, 2024	CVE-2024-10325 Elementor Header & Footer Builder: Cross-site scripting Elementor Header & Footer Builder is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires an authenticated author account. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.	See mitigation notes	CVE6.4
Oct 24, 2024	CVE-2024-10050 Elementor Header & Footer Builder: Sensitive information exposure Elementor Header & Footer Builder is affected by sensitive information exposure. Exploitation requires an authenticated contributor account. Successful exploitation can disclose data that should not be available to the caller.	See mitigation notes	CVE4.3
Jul 22, 2024	CVE-2024-33933 Elementor – Header, Footer & Blocks Template: Cross-site scripting Elementor – Header, Footer & Blocks Template is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.	See mitigation notes	CVE6.5
Jun 13, 2024	CVE-2024-5757 Elementor Header & Footer Builder: Cross-site scripting Elementor Header & Footer Builder is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires an authenticated contributor account. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.	See mitigation notes	CVE6.4
May 24, 2024	CVE-2024-2618 Elementor Header & Footer Builder: Cross-site scripting Elementor Header & Footer Builder is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires an authenticated contributor account. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.	See mitigation notes	CVE6.4
May 16, 2024	CVE-2024-2619 Header Footer Elementor: A security weakness Header Footer Elementor is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires an authenticated author account. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.	See mitigation notes	CVE5.0
May 16, 2024	CVE-2024-4634 Elementor Header & Footer Builder: Cross-site scripting Elementor Header & Footer Builder is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires an authenticated contributor account. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.	See mitigation notes	CVE6.4
Mar 13, 2024	CVE-2024-1237 Elementor Header & Footer Builder: Cross-site scripting Elementor Header & Footer Builder is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires an authenticated contributor account. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.	See mitigation notes	CVE6.4

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