# CVE-2024-4866: Cross-site scripting in UltraAddons for Elementor

> Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via widgets, leading to code execution or account takeover for other users.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-rfhq-9xcp-7phj

## What is CVE-2024-4866?

CVE-2024-4866 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in codersaiful UltraAddons for Elementor, published on 10 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The UltraAddons – Elementor Addons (Header Footer Builder, Custom Font, Custom CSS,Woo Widget, Menu Builder, Anywhere Elementor Shortcode) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via multiple widgets in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6 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-2024-37554 is potentially a duplicate of this.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4866?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Codeastrology Ultraaddons.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-4866?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4866 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-4866 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4866 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in codersaiful UltraAddons for Elementor

- [CVE-2024-37554](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37554/): WordPress UltraAddons plugin <= 2.0.2 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-10696](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10696/): Information disclosure in UltraAddons for Elementor (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-4866 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-4866 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in codersaiful UltraAddons for Elementor, published on 10 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4866 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: codersaiful UltraAddons for Elementor. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4866/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4866/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4866
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4866
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-4866

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4866/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.