CVE-2024-1234
Published: 13 March 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-1234 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Exclusiveaddons Exclusive Addons For Elementor. Its CVSS base score is 6.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 6.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The Exclusive Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting via the data attribute in all versions up to and including 2.6.9. The flaw arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping and is tracked as CWE-79 with a CVSS 3.1 score of 6.4.
Authenticated attackers holding contributor access or higher can inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. The scripts execute in the browser of any user who later visits an affected page, enabling session hijacking or other actions within the site context.
References point to a fix published in WordPress plugin trac changeset 3042217, with corresponding guidance from Wordfence indicating that administrators should apply the available plugin update to remediate the issue.
The associated EPSS score has remained essentially flat between 0.1034 and a peak of 0.1059, providing no indication of rising exploitation interest after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-17000
Vulnerability details
The Exclusive Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via data attribute in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers,…
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with contributor access or higher, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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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.