# CVE-2024-8482: Cross-site scripting in Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor

> Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts via the Team Member widget, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.

- **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:** 8 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6p6j-9vgw-x522

## What is CVE-2024-8482?

CVE-2024-8482 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Royal-Elementor-Addons Royal Elementor Addons, published on 8 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Royal Elementor Addons and Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.982 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 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8482?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Royal-Elementor-Addons Royal Elementor Addons.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-8482?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8482 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-8482 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8482 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Royal-Elementor-Addons Royal Elementor Addons

- [CVE-2023-5360](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5360/): Royal Elementor Addons and Templates < 1.3.79 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-1567](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1567/): Royal Elementor Addons and Templates <= 1.3.94 - Unauthenticated Limited File Upload (high 8.2)
- [CVE-2023-5922](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5922/): Royal Elementor Addons and Templates < 1.3.81 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Read (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2024-56226](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56226/): WordPress Royal Elementor Addons plugin <= 1.7.1001 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2025-39361](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39361/): WordPress Royal Elementor Addons plugin <= 1.7.1017 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8482 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-8482 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Royal-Elementor-Addons Royal Elementor Addons, published on 8 Oct 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-2024-8482 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Royal-Elementor-Addons Royal Elementor Addons. 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-2024-8482/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8482/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8482
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8482
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8482

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8482/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.