Rife Elementor Extensions & Templates Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability has been identified in the Rife Elementor Extensions & Templates plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions through 1.2.5. The issue arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the Writing Effect Headline shortcode. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages, which are executed when users access the affected pages.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability allows for stored cross-site scripting, where injected scripts are executed in the context of the user viewing the page.

Remediation

Users are advised to update the plugin to version 1.2.6 or a newer patched version.