Essential Addons for Elementor Lite <= 5.0.8 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

6.1
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-0683
CVSS 6.1 (Medium)
Publicly Published February 18, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researchers Pham Van Khanh (rskvp93) from VCSLab of Viettel Cyber Security
Nguyen Dinh Bien (biennd4) from VCSLab of Viettel Cyber Security.

Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor Lite WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of the settings parameter found in the ~/includes/Traits/Helper.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts onto a pages that executes whenever a user clicks on a specially crafted link by an attacker. This affects versions up to and including 5.0.8.

Learn more about Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities and how to prevent them.

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Vulnerability Details for Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug essential-addons-for-elementor-lite (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.0.9, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.0.8
Patched Version
  • 5.0.9

Recent vulnerabilities in Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets <= 6.8.0 - Unauthenticated Captcha Bypass CVE-2026-81777 5.3 Gaurav popalghat August 27, 2026
2 Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.7.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation CVE-2026-18039 7.3 Jakub Herman August 12, 2026
3 Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets < 6.6.10 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2026-13344 6.4 Revanth Hari Narayana Matte July 30, 2026
4 Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets < 6.6.10 - Missing Authorization CVE-2026-13345 5.3 Revanth Hari Narayana Matte July 30, 2026
5 Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.6.11 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Fancy Text Widget CVE-2026-15145 6.4 Asaf Mozes July 20, 2026
6 Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.6.11 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Reading Progress Global Color Settings CVE-2026-15156 6.4 Jonah Burgess (CryptoCat) July 20, 2026
7 Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.6.10 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Account Takeover via Email Header Injection CVE-2026-15155 8.8 Jonah Burgess (CryptoCat) July 10, 2026
8 Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.6.2 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Event Calendar Widget Popup CVE-2026-6459 6.4 Dmitrii Ignatyev July 7, 2026
9 Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Exposure via 'load_more' AJAX Handler CVE-2026-7665 5.3 Anirudh Makkar June 5, 2026
10 Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets <= 6.5.13 - Authenticated (Author+) Limited Privilege Escalation via register_user CVE-2026-5193 6.5 Athiwat Tiprasaharn (Jitlada) May 13, 2026

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