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CVE-2024-5188: Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders <= 5.9.22 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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

Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'get_manual_calendar_events' function in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.22 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

• wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets: before 5.9.23 — fixed in 5.9.23

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets 5.9.23. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/trunk/includes/Elements/Event_Calendar.php#L3255
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3097900/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5a1d5fd1-80b6-4d62-9837-59ee1e020373?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/trunk/includes/Elements/Event_Calendar.php#L3255
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3097900/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5a1d5fd1-80b6-4d62-9837-59ee1e020373?source=cve

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