posimyththemes The Plus Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 5.6.2 on WordPress Testimonials Widget carousel_direction cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in posimyththemes The Plus Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 5.6.2 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Testimonials Widget. This manipulation of the argument carousel_direction causes cross site scripting. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-5583. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability has been found in posimyththemes The Plus Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 5.6.2 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component Testimonials Widget. The manipulation of the argument carousel_direction 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 The Plus Addons for Elementor – Elementor Addons, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the carousel_direction parameter of testimonials widget in all versions up to, and including, 5.6.2 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 shared by Ngô Thiên An. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-5583 since 06/01/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. 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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• WordPress Plugin

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• posimyththemes

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• The Plus Addons for Elementor Plugin

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• 5.6.0
• 5.6.1
• 5.6.2

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