CVE-2024-10980
Published: 29 November 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-10980 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Bdthemes Element Pack. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 28.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-33480
Vulnerability details
The Element Pack Elementor Addons (Header Footer, Template Library, Dynamic Grid, Carousel and Remote Arrows) WordPress plugin before 5.10.3 does not validate and escape some of its Cookie Consent block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the…
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block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.