CVE-2024-2249: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The LA-Studio Element Kit for Elementor plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-2249) discovered in versions up to and including 1.3.7.4. The vulnerability exists in the LinkWrapper attribute found in several widgets due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes (NVD).

The vulnerability stems from improper sanitization and escaping of the LinkWrapper attribute in multiple widgets within the plugin. This security flaw 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 (Wordfence).

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 (NVD).

The vulnerability requires an authenticated user with at least contributor-level access to exploit. The attack can be executed remotely with low attack complexity (Wordfence).

A fix has been implemented in version 1.3.7.5 of the plugin, which includes proper URL sanitization using wp_allowed_protocols and esc_url functions (WordPress Plugin).