CVE-2026-6459 Cross-site scripting in Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Authenticated attackers with Author access can inject arbitrary scripts via the Event Calendar widget, 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-2026-6459?
CVE-2026-6459 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets, published on 8 Jul 2026. 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 the Event Calendar widget in all versions up to, and including, 6.6.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on event titles sourced from The Events Calendar. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-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-2026-6459?
How do I fix CVE-2026-6459?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-6459 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-2026-6459 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-6459 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-9w6j-2h2h-p5h5.