Essential Addons for Elementor Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability has been identified in the Essential Addons for Elementor - Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress. This issue affects all versions through 6.6.2 and arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping on event titles retrieved from The Events Calendar. As a result, authenticated attackers with Author-level access can inject arbitrary web scripts into pages, which will execute when users access the compromised page.

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 can update to version 6.6.3 or a newer patched version to address this vulnerability.