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CVE-2024-12043: Prime Slider – Addons For Elementor (Revolution of a slider, Hero Slider, Ecommerce Slider) <= 3.16.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Prime Slider – Addons For Elementor (Revolution of a slider, Hero Slider, Post Slider and Ecommerce Slider) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'social_link_title' parameter of the 'blog' widget in all versions up to, and including, 3.16.5 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.

Affected products

• bdthemes Prime Slider – Addons for Elementor: before 3.16.6 — fixed in 3.16.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: bdthemes Prime Slider – Addons for Elementor 3.16.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3222179%40bdthemes-prime-slider-lite&new=3222179%40bdthemes-prime-slider-lite&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/23e1fffa-9170-4bc2-ad7e-27708a08033b?source=cve

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