Vulnerability CVE-2024-8742
Published: 2024-09-13

Description:
The Essential Addons for Elementor ?? Best Elementor Addon, Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Filterable Gallery widget in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/76c292dc-e9da-4256-82df-58ac5def4771?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/6.0.3/includes/Elements/Filterable_Gallery.php#L566
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3148624/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/#developers
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