The Plus Addons for Elementor – Elementor Addons, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce <= 5.6.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Testimonials Widget Settings

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2024-5583
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published August 21, 2024
Last Updated August 22, 2024
Researcher Ngô Thiên An (ancorn_)
Description

The The Plus Addons for Elementor – Elementor Addons, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the carousel_direction parameter of testimonials widget in all versions up to, and including, 5.6.2 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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.6.2
Patched Version
  • 5.6.3
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