CVE-2024-1276

Summary

CVE-2024-1276: A critical vulnerability affects the Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress. The issue, which exists in all versions up to 5.9.8, allows authenticated attackers with contributor access or higher to inject malicious scripts through insufficient sanitization and output escaping of the Content Ticker arrow attribute. Successful exploitation results in the execution of arbitrary web scripts whenever an injected page is accessed. This poses a significant risk to WordPress sites utilizing this plugin, requiring immediate attention and update to the latest, patched version.

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