CVE-2024-1171

Summary

CVE-2024-1171 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress. The Filterable Gallery Widget, present in all versions up to 5.9.8, is the source of the issue. Attackers with contributor-level permissions and above can exploit this vulnerability by injecting malicious scripts. These scripts will be executed whenever a user accesses a page with the injected content. The root cause is insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the plugin.

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