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CVE-2024-8440: Essential Addons for Elementor -- Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders <= 6.0.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Fancy Text Widget

• 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: 2024-09-11 · 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 plugin's Fancy Text widget in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.3 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

• wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets: before 6.0.4 — fixed in 6.0.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets 6.0.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/trunk/includes/Elements/Fancy_Text.php#L114
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3148624/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c5960396-5320-4978-aa82-2e33700daa43?source=cve

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