Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Feb 29, 2024· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2024-1172
CVE-2024-1172
Description
The Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Accordion widget in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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Affected products
2- cpe:2.3:a:wpdeveloper:essential_addons_for_elementor:*:*:*:*:lite:wordpress:*:*Range: <5.9.9
- Range: <=5.9.8
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f2ff2cc6-b584-442b-890b-033a0a047c24nvdThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/5.9.7/includes/Elements/Adv_Accordion.phpnvdProduct
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/5.9.7/includes/Elements/Adv_Accordion.phpnvdProduct
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvdProduct
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