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CVE-2024-3489: Exclusive Addons for Elementor <= 2.6.9.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Countdown Expired Title

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% 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 Exclusive Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the Countdown Expired Title in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.9.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• timstrifler Exclusive Addons for Elementor: before 2.6.9.5 — fixed in 2.6.9.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: timstrifler Exclusive Addons for Elementor 2.6.9.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3074085/exclusive-addons-for-elementor/trunk/elements/countdown-timer/countdown-timer.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/76b987f1-2524-498a-a02c-a3ca390026e1?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3074085/exclusive-addons-for-elementor/trunk/elements/countdown-timer/countdown-timer.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/76b987f1-2524-498a-a02c-a3ca390026e1?source=cve

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