WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Essential Addons for Elementor < 6.6.3 - Author+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Event Calendar Widget

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Event Calendar widget 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 that execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Plugins

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-07-07 (about 21 days ago)
Added
2026-07-08 (about 20 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-07-08 (about 20 days ago)

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