wealcoder Animation Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 2.6.3 Weather Widget widgets/weather.php render weather_style/move_direction cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in wealcoder Animation Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 2.6.3. Affected is the function render of the file widgets/weather.php of the component Weather Widget. Executing a manipulation of the argument weather_style/move_direction can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-15299. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in wealcoder Animation Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 2.6.3. This vulnerability affects the function render of the file widgets/weather.php of the component Weather Widget. The manipulation of the argument weather_style/move_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. CVE summarizes:

The Animation Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'weather_style' and 'move_direction' parameters of the Weather widget in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.3. This is due to insufficient output escaping in the Weather widget's render() function at widgets/weather.php:1246, where both settings values are placed into an HTML class attribute without esc_attr(). Elementor does not server-side validate widget SELECT control values against allowed options on save, so an authenticated attacker with Contributor-level access or above can submit a crafted save_builder AJAX request storing arbitrary values in the _elementor_data post meta. The stored payload renders unescaped on every frontend visit to the affected page (the Weather widget requires an OpenWeatherMap API key to reach the vulnerable output, which is the normal operational state for sites using this widget).

The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-15299 since 07/09/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

By approaching the search of inurl:widgets/weather.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

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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• wealcoder

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• Animation Addons for Elementor Plugin

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• 2.6.0
• 2.6.1
• 2.6.2
• 2.6.3

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