Elementor Header & Footer Builder <= 1.6.26 - Authenticated (Author+) HTML Injection

5.0
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-2619
CVSS 5.0 (Medium)
Publicly Published May 16, 2024
Last Updated May 16, 2024
Researcher wesley (wcraft)

Description

The Elementor Header & Footer Builder for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.26 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary HTML in pages that will be shown whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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Vulnerability Details for Elementor Header & Footer Builder

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug header-footer-elementor (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.6.27, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.26
Patched Version
  • 1.6.27

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