CVE-2025-13977 Cross-site scripting in Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via Event Calendar and Image Masking widgets, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.
- 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-2025-13977?
CVE-2025-13977 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets, published on 17 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via multiple attack vectors in all versions up to, and including, 6.5.3. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the Event Calendar widget's custom attributes handling and the Image Masking module's element ID rendering. 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-2025-13977?
How do I fix CVE-2025-13977?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-13977 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-2025-13977 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13977 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as CVE-2025-14281, GHSA-8gx3-v5wh-6hqx.