CVE-2024-5222: Responsive Addons – Starter Templates, Advanced Features and Customizer Settings for Responsive Theme. <= 3.0.5 - Authenticated (Author+) 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: 2024-06-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Responsive Addons – Starter Templates, Advanced Features and Customizer Settings for Responsive Theme. plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's file uploader in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

cyberchimps Responsive Plus – Elementor Templates & Starter Sites: before 3.0.6 — fixed in 3.0.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: cyberchimps Responsive Plus – Elementor Templates & Starter Sites 3.0.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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