CVE-2025-13196 Cross-site scripting in Element Pack – Widgets, Templates & Addons for Elementor
Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via the Open Street Map widget, 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
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-13196?
CVE-2025-13196 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in bdthemes Element Pack – Widgets, Templates & Addons for Elementor, published on 18 Nov 2025. 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 Element Pack Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Open Street Map widget's marker content parameter in all versions up to, and including, 8.3.4. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the render function. 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-2025-13196?
How do I fix CVE-2025-13196?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-13196 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-2025-13196 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13196 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c9qx-9qww-xqpw.