What is CVE-2024-5612?

CVE-2024-5612 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Essential Addons For Elementor Pro, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-06-07.

How severe is CVE-2024-5612?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-5612 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 Pro

CVE-2024-5612

The Essential Addons for Elementor Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘eael_lightbox_open_btn_icon’ parameter within the Lightbox & Modal widget in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.15 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (18.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Essential Addons For Elementor Pro — versions 0
Wpdeveloper Essential_addons_for_elementor

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

david-prv/vulnerable-wordpress-plugins

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-5612?: CVE-2024-5612 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Essential Addons For Elementor Pro, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-06-07.
How severe is CVE-2024-5612?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-5612 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.