CVE-2024-2280: The Better Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the widget link URL values in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.1 due to insufficient input sa...

Summary

The Better Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the widget link URL values in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated at...

What to do

Update kitforest better_elementor_addons to version 1.4.2 or later.

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
kitforest	better_elementor_addons	< 1.4.2 `cpe:2.3:a:kitforest:better_elementor_addons::::::wordpress::*`

Original advisory text

The Better Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the widget link URL values in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.1 due to insufficient input sa...

The Better Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the widget link URL values in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old... Patch
https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-elementor-addons/#developers Release Notes
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e8d7ace3-af34-4951-810... Third Party Advisory