WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

News Kit Elementor Addons <= 1.4.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting 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.

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
news-kit-elementor-addons
No known fix

References

CVE
CVE-2024-54260
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/news-kit-elementor-addons/vulnerability/wordpress-news-kit-elementor-addons-plugin-1-2-2-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Gab
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
e71a43f3-3a04-4ef8-ae93-bf691f9f91e6

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-12-05 (about 1 year ago)
Added
2024-12-12 (about 1 year ago)
Last Updated
2025-12-27 (about 4 months ago)

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