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CVE-2025-9045: Easy Elementor Addons <= 2.2.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- 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: 2025-10-03 · updated 2026-10-12
- Weakness: CWE-79
Description
The Easy Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several widget parameters in versions less than, or equal to, 2.2.9 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
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-elementor-addons/tags/2.2.8/modules/countdown/widgets/countdown.php#L864
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-elementor-addons/tags/2.2.8/modules/countdown/widgets/countdown.php#L868
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-elementor-addons/tags/2.2.8/modules/countdown/widgets/countdown.php#L871
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-elementor-addons/tags/2.2.8/modules/image-comparison/widgets/image-comparison.php#L376
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-elementor-addons/tags/2.2.8/modules/image-comparison/widgets/image-comparison.php#L377
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-elementor-addons/tags/2.3.0/modules/countdown/widgets/countdown.php#L871
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-elementor-addons/tags/2.3.0/modules/image-comparison/widgets/image-comparison.php#L376
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/08640d56-fc76-4062-ab08-19415ad77e5e?source=cve
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