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.
History

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 21:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Elementor
Elementor elementor
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Elementor
Elementor elementor
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:45:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates and Widgets <= 6.2.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'data-gallery-items'
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-08-15T12:09:25.764Z

Reserved: 2025-07-31T21:53:11.940Z

Link: CVE-2025-8451

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-08-15T12:09:22.983Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-08-15T07:15:29.160

Modified: 2025-08-15T13:12:51.217

Link: CVE-2025-8451

cve-icon Redhat

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