CVE-2024-12043 Cross-site scripting in Prime Slider – Addons for Elementor

Medium 6.4 Published 23 Jan 2025 Updated 8 Apr 2026

Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via the social_link_title parameter, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.

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-2024-12043?

CVE-2024-12043 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in bdthemes Prime Slider – Addons for Elementor, published on 23 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Prime Slider – Addons For Elementor (Revolution of a slider, Hero Slider, Post Slider and Ecommerce Slider) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'social_link_title' parameter of the 'blog' widget in all versions up to, and including, 3.16.5 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.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12043?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Bdthemes Prime Slider.

How do I fix CVE-2024-12043?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12043 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-2024-12043 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12043 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-9736-p97g-656h.