Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-11829

CVE-2024-11829:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Plus Addons for Elementor – Elementor Addons, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-11829) discovered in February 2025. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 6.1.8, specifically in the Table Widget's searchable_label parameter. This security issue stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79) issue with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (MEDIUM) according to NVD, and 6.4 (MEDIUM) according to Wordfence. The attack vector is network-accessible (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring low privileges (PR:L) and user interaction (UI:R). The scope is changed (S:C) with low confidentiality and integrity impact (C:L, I:L) and no availability impact (A:N) (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever any user accesses the compromised page, potentially leading to unauthorized data access, session hijacking, or other malicious activities (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 6.2.0 of the plugin. Users are strongly advised to update to this version or later to protect against this security issue (WordPress Patch).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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