Vulnerability CVE-2024-8858
Published: 2024-09-25

Description:
The Elementor Addons by Livemesh plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ??piechart_settings?? parameter in all versions up to, and including, 8.5 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.

Type:

CWE-79

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

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d3c2e5fe-cc02-479e-9f33-e1a783088596?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/addons-for-elementor/trunk/templates/addons/piecharts/loop.php#L21
https://wordpress.org/plugins/addons-for-elementor/#developers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3153346/
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