wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 5.9.8 on WordPress Accordion Widget cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 5.9.8 on WordPress. This affects an unknown part of the component Accordion Widget. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-1172. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 5.9.8 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Accordion Widget. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

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 Accordion widget in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

The weakness was released 02/21/2024 by Wesley. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-1172 since 02/01/2024. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.4

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VulDB Temp Score: 3.4
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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Remote: Yes

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02/21/2024 +20 days 🔍
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04/19/2025 +423 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wordfence.com
Researcher: Wesley
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-1172 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-1172
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-254276

Entryinfo

Created: 02/21/2024 07:32 AM
Updated: 04/19/2025 10:51 AM
Changes: 02/21/2024 07:32 AM (50), 03/08/2024 11:31 PM (1), 01/09/2025 12:11 AM (16), 04/19/2025 10:51 AM (3)
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