Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 11, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-8440
CVE-2024-8440
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 Fancy Text widget in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.3 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.
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Affected products
2- Range: <=6.0.3
- wpdevteam/Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgetsv5Range: 0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3148624/nvdPatch
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c5960396-5320-4978-aa82-2e33700daa43nvdThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/trunk/includes/Elements/Fancy_Text.phpnvdProduct
- wordpress.org/plugins/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/nvdRelease Notes
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