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CVE-2024-1996: Premium Addons for Elementor PRO <= 2.9.12 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via widget link

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Premium Addons PRO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's IHover widget link in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.12 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

• Premium Addons for Elementor Premium Addons Pro for Elementor: before 2.9.13 — fixed in 2.9.13

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Premium Addons for Elementor Premium Addons Pro for Elementor 2.9.13. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://premiumaddons.com/change-log/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/48fa5f3b-000b-406e-b7ee-51af5720cf72?source=cve
• https://premiumaddons.com/change-log/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/48fa5f3b-000b-406e-b7ee-51af5720cf72?source=cve

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