wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 5.9.15 on WordPress Filterable Gallery / Interactive Circle Widgets cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 5.9.15 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Filterable Gallery / Interactive Circle Widgets. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2024-3728. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 5.9.15 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Filterable Gallery / Interactive Circle Widgets. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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 Filterable Gallery & Interactive Circle widgets in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.15 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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 presented by Matthew Rollings as 3075644. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-3728 since 04/12/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. 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.

Upgrading to version 5.9.16 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 3075644 is able to eliminate this problem. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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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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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin 5.9.16
Patch: 3075644

Timelineinfo

04/12/2024 🔍
05/02/2024 +20 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 3075644
Researcher: Matthew Rollings
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-3728 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-3728
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-262903

Entryinfo

Created: 05/02/2024 20:12
Updated: 04/02/2025 05:20
Changes: 05/02/2024 20:12 (69), 01/09/2025 09:49 (2), 04/02/2025 05:20 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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