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CVE-2024-4697: Cowidgets – Elementor Addons <= 1.1.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via heading_tag Parameter

• 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: 2024-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Cowidgets – Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘heading_tag’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. CVE-2024-35782 is likely a duplicate of this issue.

Affected products

• codelessthemes Cowidgets – Elementor Addons: before 1.2.0 — fixed in 1.2.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: codelessthemes Cowidgets – Elementor Addons 1.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3099564%40cowidgets-elementor-addons&new=3099564%40cowidgets-elementor-addons&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/beb28e9e-bf6a-4eed-afbc-ca85ec489df7?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cowidgets-elementor-addons/trunk/inc/widgets-manager/widgets/header/class-page-title.php#L418
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cowidgets-elementor-addons/trunk/inc/widgets-manager/widgets/header/class-site-title.php#L423
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/beb28e9e-bf6a-4eed-afbc-ca85ec489df7?source=cve

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