CVE-2024-3645 Cross-site scripting in Essential Addons for Elementor Pro
Authenticated attackers with contributor access can inject arbitrary scripts via the Counter 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-2024-3645?
CVE-2024-3645 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor, published on 22 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Essential Addons for Elementor Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Counter widget in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.11 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes such as 'title_html_tag'. 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-2024-3645?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor.
How do I fix CVE-2024-3645?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-3645 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-2024-3645 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3645 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
All Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor vulnerabilities
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c845-7f5g-6pcv.