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CVE-2024-3307: HT Mega – Absolute Addons For Elementor <= 2.4.9 - 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: 0.3% 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 HT Mega – Absolute Addons For Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Countdown widget's attributes in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access or above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected products
- devitemsllc HT Mega Addons for Elementor – Elementor Widgets & Template Builder: before 2.5.0 — fixed in 2.5.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: devitemsllc HT Mega Addons for Elementor – Elementor Widgets & Template Builder 2.5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-mega-for-elementor/trunk/includes/widgets/htmega_countdown.php#L1251
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3071480%40ht-mega-for-elementor%2Ftrunk&old=3063395%40ht-mega-for-elementor%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c8452e54-7a81-4921-b531-8cb3b0953dab?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-mega-for-elementor/trunk/includes/widgets/htmega_countdown.php#L1251
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3071480%40ht-mega-for-elementor%2Ftrunk&old=3063395%40ht-mega-for-elementor%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c8452e54-7a81-4921-b531-8cb3b0953dab?source=cve
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