CVE-2024-3718 Cross-site scripting in The Plus Addons for Elementor – Addons for Elementor, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce
Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via multiple widgets, 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-2024-3718?
CVE-2024-3718 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in posimyththemes The Plus Addons for Elementor – Addons for Elementor, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce, published on 24 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The The Plus Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several of the plugin's widgets all versions up to, and including, 5.5.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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. CVE-2024-35709 is likely a duplicate of this issue.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3718?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Posimyth the Plus Addons for Elementor.
How do I fix CVE-2024-3718?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-3718 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-2024-3718 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3718 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in posimyththemes The Plus Addons for Elementor – Addons for Elementor, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce
- CVE-2021-24949 The Plus Addons for Elementor Pro < 5.0.7 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
- CVE-2021-24175 The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder < 4.1.7 - Authentication Bypass
- CVE-2024-5455 Path traversal in The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder Pro
- CVE-2021-4331 Privilege escalation in The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder Pro
- CVE-2023-47178 WordPress The Plus Addons for Elementor Pro plugin <= 5.2.8 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion vulnerability