CVE-2025-24752
Published: 17 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-24752 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Wpdeveloper Essential Addons For Elementor. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 11.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-24752 is a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability arising from improper neutralization of input during web page generation. It affects the Essential Addons for Elementor plugin (essential-addons-for-elementor-lite) for WordPress, impacting all versions through 6.0.14. The flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.1 and is tracked under CWE-79.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the issue by crafting a malicious request that reflects executable script back to a victim user who follows a supplied link. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to perform actions within the context of the victim's session, resulting in limited impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability with scope change.
The vulnerability is documented in the Patchstack advisory, which identifies the reflected XSS condition in the named plugin versions. The EPSS score reached a peak of 0.0506 after disclosure before receding to its current value of 0.0397.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-11615
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in WPDeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor essential-addons-for-elementor-lite allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Essential Addons for Elementor: from n/a through <= 6.0.14.
- 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.