CVE-2024-1172 Cross-site scripting in Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via the Accordion widget, leading to stored XSS execution for other users.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-1172?
CVE-2024-1172 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor, published on 20 Feb 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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 plugin's Accordion widget in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1172?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor.
How do I fix CVE-2024-1172?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1172 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2024-1172 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1172 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor
- CVE-2023-32243 WordPress Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin 5.4.0-5.7.1 is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation
- CVE-2022-0320 Essential Addons for Elementor < 5.0.5 - Unauthenticated LFI
- CVE-2021-4447 Essential Addons for Elementor <= 4.6.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation
- CVE-2023-41955 WordPress Essential Addons for Elementor plugin <= 5.8.8 - Contributor+ Privilege Escalation vulnerability
- CVE-2024-3018 Essential Addons for Elementor <= 5.9.13 - Authenticated (Author+) PHP Object Injection via error_resetpassword
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-x6hg-f949-cqff.