CVE-2023-6632
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Happy Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin contains a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via DOM in versions up to and including 3.9.1.1 (and up to 2.9.1.1 in Happy Addons for Elementor Pro). The vulnerability was assigned CVE-2023-6632 and was disclosed on January 11, 2024 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the plugin's code. This security flaw has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.1 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating that it requires user interaction but can be exploited remotely without authentication (Wordfence).

Impact

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when users perform certain actions, such as clicking on a malicious link. The impact is limited to low confidentiality and integrity breaches with no effect on availability (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should update to Happy Addons for Elementor version 3.10.0 or later, or Happy Addons for Elementor Pro version 2.10.0 or later, which contain patches for this vulnerability (NVD).

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