CVE-2025-8451

15.08.2025, 07:15

The Essential Addons for Elementor  Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the data-gallery-items parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.2.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.

Cross-site Scripting

Provider	Type	Base Score	Atk. Vector	Atk. Complexity	Priv. Required	Vector
NIST	NIST	6.4 MEDIUM	NETWORK	LOW	LOW	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Wordfence	CNA	6.4 MEDIUM				CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Awaiting analysis

This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis.

Base Score

CVSS 3.x

EPSS Score

Percentile: Unknown

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
The software does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/trunk/assets/front-end/js/view/filterable-gallery.js

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3344071/

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4917652a-1c83-4570-98c5-1a34e637814e?source=cve