CVE-2024-9673

Summary

CVE-2024-9673 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Piotnet Addons For Elementor plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 2.4.31, permits authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject malicious scripts into the plugin's Heading widget. The insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes allow the attacker to execute arbitrary web scripts whenever a user accesses an affected page. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to websites using the Piotnet Addons For Elementor plugin and can lead to various types of attacks. It is essential that users update to the latest version of the plugin to mitigate this issue.

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