How severe is CVE-2025-1261?

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

XSS in Devitemsllc Ht Mega Addons For Elementor – Widgets & Template Builder

CVE-2025-1261

The HT Mega – Absolute Addons For Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Countdown widget in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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. NOTE: This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-3307.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2025-03-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (10.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 11th percentile — 10.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Devitemsllc Ht Mega Addons For Elementor – Widgets & Template Builder — versions 0
Hasthemes Ht Mega

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e553135d-88e0-4840-99ad-9514c… (Third Party Advisory)
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3249106/ht-mega-for-elementor/tags/2.8.3/a… (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-1261?: CVE-2025-1261 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Devitemsllc Ht Mega Addons For Elementor – Widgets & Template Builder, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-03-08.
How severe is CVE-2025-1261?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.