What is CVE-2022-0683?

CVE-2022-0683 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Essential Addons For Elementor Lite, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2022-02-24.

How severe is CVE-2022-0683?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-0683 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Essential Addons For Elementor Lite

CVE-2022-0683

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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.032 (87.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Essential Addons For Elementor Lite — versions 5.0.8
Wpdeveloper Essential_addons_for_elementor

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
security@wordfence.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-0683?: CVE-2022-0683 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Essential Addons For Elementor Lite, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2022-02-24.
How severe is CVE-2022-0683?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-0683 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.