CVE-2025-8451 Cross-site scripting in Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Authenticated contributors can inject malicious scripts via the data-gallery-items parameter, 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
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-8451?
CVE-2025-8451 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets, published on 15 Aug 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 DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘data-gallery-items’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.2.2 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
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-8451?
How do I fix CVE-2025-8451?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-8451 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-2025-8451 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-8451 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-v58j-m2w2-qgjj.