Blazemes News Kit Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 1.4.8 on WordPress Output Escaping /wp-admin/profile.php handle_scripts formData cross site scripting

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Blazemes News Kit Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 1.4.8. This affects the function handle_scripts of the file /wp-admin/profile.php of the component Output Escaping. The manipulation of the argument formData leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-120524. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Blazemes News Kit Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 1.4.8. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects the function handle_scripts of the file /wp-admin/profile.php of the component Output Escaping. The manipulation of the argument formData with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The News Kit Addons For Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'formData' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This is possible because an operator-precedence bug in handle_scripts() causes the admin bundle — and its inlined nekit-admin-nonce — to be enqueued on every admin screen accessible to Subscribers (such as /wp-admin/profile.php), and because sanitize_text_field() is applied to the raw JSON string before json_decode(), allowing angle brackets encoded as \u003c/\u003e to survive sanitization and be restored to literal angle brackets, enabling overwrite of _elementor_data on any post.

It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-120524 since 11/02/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated 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.

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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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• Blazemes

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• News Kit Addons for Elementor Plugin

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• 1.4.0
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.3
• 1.4.4
• 1.4.5
• 1.4.6
• 1.4.7
• 1.4.8

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