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CVE-2022-4661: Woo Products Widgets For Elementor < 1.0.8 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Widgets for WooCommerce Products on Elementor WordPress plugin before 1.0.8 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affected products

• Widgets for WooCommerce Products on Elementor: before 1.0.8 — fixed in 1.0.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Widgets for WooCommerce Products on Elementor 1.0.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b95956c9-40e5-47aa-86f6-e2da61b3c19f
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b95956c9-40e5-47aa-86f6-e2da61b3c19f

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