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CVE-2024-1364: Elementor Website Builder Pro <= 3.20.1 - Authententicated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Elementor Website Builder Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via widget's custom_id in all versions up to, and including, 3.20.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• https://elementor.com/ Elementor Website Builder Pro: before 3.20.2 — fixed in 3.20.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: https://elementor.com/ Elementor Website Builder Pro 3.20.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://elementor.com/pro/changelog/?utm_source=wp-plugins&utm_campaign=pro-changelog&utm_medium=wp-dash
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/531954dd-ed3f-4626-adab-c1bba8407c89?source=cve
• https://elementor.com/pro/changelog/?utm_source=wp-plugins&utm_campaign=pro-changelog&utm_medium=wp-dash
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/531954dd-ed3f-4626-adab-c1bba8407c89?source=cve

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