wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 5.9.17 on WordPress eael_event_text_color cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 5.9.17 on WordPress. Impacted is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation of the argument eael_event_text_color results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-4156. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 5.9.17 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. This affects some unknown processing. The manipulation of the argument eael_event_text_color with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on 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 ‘eael_event_text_color’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 5.9.17 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

The weakness was published by Wesley as 3079406. The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-4156 since 04/24/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

Applying the patch 3079406 is able to eliminate this problem.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• wpdevteam

Name

• Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin

Version

• 5.9.0
• 5.9.1
• 5.9.2
• 5.9.3
• 5.9.4
• 5.9.5
• 5.9.6
• 5.9.7
• 5.9.8
• 5.9.9
• 5.9.10
• 5.9.11
• 5.9.12
• 5.9.13
• 5.9.14
• 5.9.15
• 5.9.16
• 5.9.17

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