CVE-2024-0954: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-0954) contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability affecting versions up to and including 5.9.7. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on February 1, 2024, and affects the plugin's wrapper link functionality. This security issue impacts WordPress installations using the Essential Addons for Elementor plugin (NVD, WPScan).

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied protocols in the 'data-eael-wrapper-link' wrapper. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) (NVD).

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page, potentially leading to unauthorized data access or manipulation (WPScan).

The vulnerability has been patched in version 5.9.8 of the Essential Addons for Elementor plugin. Users are strongly advised to update to this version or later to protect against this security issue (WPScan).