posimyththemes The Plus Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 6.4.15 on WordPress Carousel Anything Widget carousel_direction cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in posimyththemes The Plus Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 6.4.15 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Carousel Anything Widget. Performing a manipulation of the argument carousel_direction results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-9243. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in posimyththemes The Plus Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 6.4.15 on WordPress. This affects an unknown functionality of the component Carousel Anything Widget. The manipulation of the argument carousel_direction 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 Plus Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'carousel_direction' parameter of the Carousel Anything widget in versions up to, and including, 6.4.15 This is due to insufficient output escaping in the render() function, where the carousel_direction value is placed into an unquoted HTML attribute (dir=) allowing attribute injection despite the use of esc_attr(). 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 by João Pedro S Alcântara. The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-9243 since 05/21/2026. 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.

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-2026-33254). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• posimyththemes

Name

• The Plus Addons for Elementor Plugin

Version

• 6.4.0
• 6.4.1
• 6.4.2
• 6.4.3
• 6.4.4
• 6.4.5
• 6.4.6
• 6.4.7
• 6.4.8
• 6.4.9
• 6.4.10
• 6.4.11
• 6.4.12
• 6.4.13
• 6.4.14
• 6.4.15

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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