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CVE-2024-5583: The Plus Addons for Elementor – Elementor Addons, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce <= 5.6.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Testimonials Widget Settings

• 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: 2024-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The The Plus Addons for Elementor – Elementor Addons, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the carousel_direction parameter of testimonials widget in all versions up to, and including, 5.6.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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

• posimyththemes The Plus Addons for Elementor – Addons for Elementor, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce: before 5.6.3 — fixed in 5.6.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: posimyththemes The Plus Addons for Elementor – Addons for Elementor, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce 5.6.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/tags/5.5.6/modules/widgets/tp_testimonial_listout.php#L2284
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/55981e72-8d1a-4075-a372-6bddc95e99d8?source=cve

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