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CVE-2024-4619: Elementor Website Builder – More than Just a Page Builder <= 3.21.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• 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: 2024-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Elementor Website Builder – More than Just a Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘hover_animation’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 3.21.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Elementor Website Builder: before 3.21.5 — fixed in 3.21.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Elementor Website Builder 3.21.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/elementor/trunk/includes/widgets/image-box.php#L696
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3089420
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c7e1028e-e04b-46c4-b574-889d9fc1069d?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/elementor/trunk/includes/widgets/image-box.php#L696
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3089420
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c7e1028e-e04b-46c4-b574-889d9fc1069d?source=cve

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