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CVE-2024-4780: Image Hover Effects – Elementor Addon <= 1.4.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via eihe_link Parameter

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2024-07-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Image Hover Effects – Elementor Addon plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘eihe_link’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.3 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.

Affected products

• Blocksera Image Hover Effects – Elementor Addon: through 1.4.3

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/image-hover-effects-addon-for-elementor/tags/1.4.3/includes/widgets.php#L529
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3117113/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-hover-effects-addon-for-elementor/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/637972a3-1936-4add-88a2-3fbafba4b5c8?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/image-hover-effects-addon-for-elementor/tags/1.4.3/includes/widgets.php#L529
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3117113/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-hover-effects-addon-for-elementor/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/637972a3-1936-4add-88a2-3fbafba4b5c8?source=cve

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