CVE-2024-3718: the plus addons for elementor vulnerability

The The Plus Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several of the plugin's widgets all versions up to, and including, 5.5.4 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. CVE-2024-35709 is likely a duplicate of this issue.
CVE-2024-3718CVSS 6.4Web

CVE-2024-3718: the plus addons for elementor vulnerability

The The Plus Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several of the plugin's widgets all versions up to, and including, 5.5.4 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. CVE-2024-35709 is likely a duplicate of this issue.

CVSS
6.4 MEDIUM
EPSS
32.67%
Known exploited
not in KEV
Product
the plus addons for elementor

What is known

The The Plus Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several of the plugin's widgets all versions up to, and including, 5.5.4 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. CVE-2024-35709 is likely a duplicate of this issue.

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