Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 6.1.12 on WordPress Event Calendar Widget eael_event_details_text cross site scripting

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A vulnerability has been found in Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 6.1.12 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Event Calendar Widget. This manipulation of the argument eael_event_details_text causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-9993. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 6.1.12 on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Event Calendar Widget. The manipulation of the argument eael_event_details_text 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 Addon, Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the eael_event_details_text parameter of Event Calendar Widget in all versions up to, and including, 6.1.12 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.

It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-9993 since 10/15/2024. 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-54655). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin

Version

• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1
• 6.1.2
• 6.1.3
• 6.1.4
• 6.1.5
• 6.1.6
• 6.1.7
• 6.1.8
• 6.1.9
• 6.1.10
• 6.1.11
• 6.1.12

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