WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

ElementsKit Elementor addons < 3.0.5 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
elementskit-lite
Fixed in 3.0.5

References

CVE
CVE-2024-1239
URL
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1822fd58-0dba-4b15-9702-32e3aa4405b3

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
6.4 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
RandomRoot
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
3841d9e2-075e-415f-aa6d-e45bd9769cd5

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-03-15 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2024-03-18 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2024-03-18 (about 2 years ago)

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