CVE-2022-0683 MEDIUM

CVE-2022-0683: Essential Addons for Elementor Lite <= 5.0.8 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Vendor Essential Addons For Elementor Lite
Product Essential Addons for Elementor Lite
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published February 24, 2022
Last update January 31, 2025
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CVSS base score

6.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor Lite WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of the settings parameter found in the ~/includes/Traits/Helper.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts onto a pages that executes whenever a user clicks on a specially crafted link by an attacker. This affects versions up to and including 5.0.8.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 24, 2022 CVE published
January 31, 2025 Record updated