The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘data-gallery-items’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.2.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.
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Description | The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘data-gallery-items’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.2.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. | |
Title | Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates and Widgets <= 6.2.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'data-gallery-items' | |
Weaknesses | CWE-79 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published: 2025-08-15T06:40:41.711Z
Updated: 2025-08-15T12:09:25.764Z
Reserved: 2025-07-31T21:53:11.940Z
Link: CVE-2025-8451

Updated: 2025-08-15T12:09:22.983Z

Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-08-15T07:15:29.160
Modified: 2025-08-15T13:12:51.217
Link: CVE-2025-8451

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