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CVE-2025-8444: Animation Addons for Elementor – GSAP Powered Elementor Addons & Website Templates <= 4.2.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Multiple Parameters

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-06-10 · updated 2026-10-30
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Animation Addons for Elementor – GSAP Powered Elementor Addons & Website Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the multiple parameters in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.6 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

• wealcoder Animation Addons – Elementor Addons, GSAP Animations, Elementor V4 Atomic Widgets & Elementor Templates: through 4.2.6

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/animation-addons-for-elementor/trunk/assets/js/wcf-addons.min.js
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3748079/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9d1cb486-f461-4a06-ae9a-39669109b2c0?source=cve

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