CVE-2024-5553 Premium Addons for Elementor <= 4.10.33 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Medium 4.4 Published Updated

Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via DOM-based stored XSS in Premium Addons for Elementor, affecting WordPress sites.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-5553?

CVE-2024-5553 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in leap13 Premium Addons for Elementor – Powerful Elementor Templates & Widgets, published on 12 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Premium Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several parameters in all versions up to, and including, 4.10.33 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 and edits an injected element, and subsequently clicks the element with the mouse scroll wheel.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5553?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Leap13 Premium Addons for Elementor.

How do I fix CVE-2024-5553?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5553 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-2024-5553 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5553 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-597m-8j3v-mvc5.

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