What is CVE-2024-6169?

CVE-2024-6169 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unitecms Unlimited Elements For Elementor, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-07-09.

How severe is CVE-2024-6169?

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

Is CVE-2024-6169 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Unitecms Unlimited Elements For Elementor

CVE-2024-6169

The Unlimited Elements For Elementor (Free Widgets, Addons, Templates) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘username’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.112 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above and granted plugin setting edit permissions by an administrator, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (41.6th 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

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)
security@wordfence.com (Exploit)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-6169?: CVE-2024-6169 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unitecms Unlimited Elements For Elementor, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-07-09.
How severe is CVE-2024-6169?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-6169 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.