CVE-2024-1276 Cross-site scripting in Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets

Medium 6.4 Published Updated

Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via the Content Ticker widget, 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-2024-1276?

CVE-2024-1276 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 Content Ticker arrow attribute 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 access or 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-2024-1276?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor.

How do I fix CVE-2024-1276?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1276 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-2024-1276 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1276 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-j59m-2g2f-c3pc.

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