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CVE-2024-5189: Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders <= 5.9.23 - 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: 2024-06-11 · 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 ‘custom_js’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.23 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 5.9.24 — fixed in 5.9.24

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets 5.9.24. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/5.9.21/includes/Classes/Asset_Builder.php#L264
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3099937/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aa70238b-530e-4c90-82f4-c3113887d0e1?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/5.9.21/includes/Classes/Asset_Builder.php#L264
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3099937/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aa70238b-530e-4c90-82f4-c3113887d0e1?source=cve

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