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CVE-2024-4876: HT Mega – Absolute Addons For Elementor <= 2.5.2 - 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: 2024-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The HT Mega – Absolute Addons For Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘popover_header_text’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.5.2 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

• devitemsllc HT Mega Addons for Elementor – Elementor Widgets & Template Builder: before 2.5.3 — fixed in 2.5.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: devitemsllc HT Mega Addons for Elementor – Elementor Widgets & Template Builder 2.5.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-mega-for-elementor/tags/2.5.0/includes/widgets/htmega_popover.php#L891
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3088899/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/39e104fa-591a-41e8-af7e-f8b32a199170?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-mega-for-elementor/tags/2.5.0/includes/widgets/htmega_popover.php#L891
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3088899/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/39e104fa-591a-41e8-af7e-f8b32a199170?source=cve

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