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CVE-2024-4482: The Plus Addons for Elementor <= 5.6.1 - 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: 2024-07-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The The Plus Addons for Elementor – Elementor Addons, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'Countdown' widget in all versions up to, and including, 5.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied 'text_days' attribute. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• posimyththemes The Plus Addons for Elementor – Addons for Elementor, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce: before 5.6.2 — fixed in 5.6.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: posimyththemes The Plus Addons for Elementor – Addons for Elementor, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce 5.6.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/tags/5.5.1/modules/widgets/tp_countdown.php#L1945
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/25e42bf8-794e-46a5-b7db-f1f8802bba00?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/tags/5.5.1/modules/widgets/tp_countdown.php#L1945
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/25e42bf8-794e-46a5-b7db-f1f8802bba00?source=cve

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