CVE-2024-12851 Element Pack Lite - Addons for Elementor <= 5.10.14 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via the Cookie Consent Widget, leading to potential session hijacking or malicious actions 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-2024-12851?
CVE-2024-12851 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in bdthemes Element Pack – Widgets, Templates & Addons for Elementor, published on 8 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Element Pack Elementor Addons (Header Footer, Template Library, Dynamic Grid, Carousel and Remote Arrows) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the custom_attributes parameter of the Cookie Consent Widget in all versions up to, and including, 5.10.14 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-2024-12851?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Bdthemes Element Pack.
How do I fix CVE-2024-12851?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12851 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-2024-12851 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12851 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in bdthemes Element Pack – Widgets, Templates & Addons for Elementor
- CVE-2024-33568 WordPress Element Pack Pro plugin < 7.19.3 - Arbitrary File Read and Phar Deserialization vulnerability
- CVE-2024-30496 WordPress Element Pack Lite plugin <= 5.5.3 - SQL Injection vulnerability
- CVE-2024-9657 Cross-site scripting in Element Pack – Widgets, Templates & Addons for Elementor
- CVE-2024-47392 WordPress Element Pack Elementor Addons plugin <= 5.7.5 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
- CVE-2024-4359 Path traversal in Element Pack – Widgets, Templates & Addons for Elementor
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mxrr-c886-v7f7.