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CVE-2025-8451: Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates and Widgets <= 6.2.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'data-gallery-items'

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2025-08-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘data-gallery-items’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.2.2 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: through 6.2.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/trunk/assets/front-end/js/view/filterable-gallery.js
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3344071/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4917652a-1c83-4570-98c5-1a34e637814e?source=cve

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