Happy Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 3.10.3 on WordPress Author Meta Widget cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Happy Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 3.10.3 on WordPress. Affected is an unknown function of the component Author Meta Widget. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-1377. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Happy Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 3.10.3 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin) and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Author Meta 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. The summary by CVE is:

The Happy Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘author_meta_tag’ attribute of the Author Meta widget in all versions up to, and including, 3.10.3 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.

The weakness was disclosed 03/06/2024. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-1377 since 02/08/2024. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.1
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

VulDB Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Temp Score: 3.4
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CNA Base Score: 6.4
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

02/08/2024 🔍
03/06/2024 +27 days 🔍
03/06/2024 +0 days 🔍
04/12/2026 +767 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 3044937
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-1377 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-1377
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-255947

Entryinfo

Created: 03/06/2024 19:01
Updated: 04/12/2026 17:29
Changes: 03/06/2024 19:01 (38), 04/05/2024 09:13 (16), 04/05/2024 09:15 (12), 01/07/2025 20:15 (13), 04/17/2025 12:36 (3), 04/12/2026 17:29 (1)
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Cache ID: 216:4D1:103

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