What is CVE-2024-8962?

CVE-2024-8962 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpbits Addons For Elementor Page Builder, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-12-04.

How severe is CVE-2024-8962?

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

XSS in Wpbits Addons For Elementor Page Builder

CVE-2024-8962

The WPBITS Addons For Elementor Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the SVG file.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (21.7th 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

Wpbits Addons For Elementor Page Builder — versions 0
Wpbits Wpbits_addons_for_elementor_page_builder

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8962?: CVE-2024-8962 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpbits Addons For Elementor Page Builder, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-12-04.
How severe is CVE-2024-8962?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.