What is CVE-2025-8779?

CVE-2025-8779 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Shamsbd71 All-In-One Addons For Elementor – Widgetkit, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-12-13.

How severe is CVE-2025-8779?

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

XSS in Shamsbd71 All-In-One Addons For Elementor – Widgetkit

CVE-2025-8779

The All-in-One Addons for Elementor – WidgetKit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Team and Countdown widgets in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.6 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (8.8th 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

Shamsbd71 All-in-one Addons For Elementor – Widgetkit — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-8779?: CVE-2025-8779 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Shamsbd71 All-In-One Addons For Elementor – Widgetkit, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-12-13.
How severe is CVE-2025-8779?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.