CVE-2024-3161: Jeg Elementor Kit <= 2.6.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Countdown Widget

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: 2024-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Jeg Elementor Kit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the countdown widget's attributes in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access or higher, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

jegtheme Jeg Kit for Elementor – Powerful Addons for Elementor, Widgets & Templates for WordPress: before 2.6.5 — fixed in 2.6.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: jegtheme Jeg Kit for Elementor – Powerful Addons for Elementor, Widgets & Templates for WordPress 2.6.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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