CVE-2024-5583

MEDIUM

Plus Addons for Elementor < 5.6.3 - Authenticated Stored XSS via Testimonial Carousel

Title source: llm

Description

The The Plus Addons for Elementor – Elementor Addons, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the carousel_direction parameter of testimonials widget in all versions up to, and including, 5.6.2 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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/tags/5.5.6/modules/widgets/tp_testimonial_listout.php#L2284

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/55981e72-8d1a-4075-a372-6bddc95e99d8?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 6.4

EPSS 0.0025

EPSS Percentile 16.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (2)

posimyth/the_plus_addons_for_elementor < 5.6.3

posimyththemes/The Plus Addons for Elementor – Addons for Elementor, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce < 5.6.2

Published Aug 22, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026