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CVE-2024-4624: Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders <= 5.9.20 - Authenticated (Contributor+) 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: 2024-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders plugins for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘eael_ext_toc_title_tag’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 5.9.20 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

• wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets: before 5.9.21 — fixed in 5.9.21

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets 5.9.21. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/5.9.19/includes/Traits/Elements.php#L550
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3085420/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bedad627-0ccb-41c1-be8d-753f57be618f?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/5.9.19/includes/Traits/Elements.php#L550
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3085420/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bedad627-0ccb-41c1-be8d-753f57be618f?source=cve

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