CVE-2024-3985: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The Exclusive Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-3985) in versions up to and including 2.6.9.3. The vulnerability exists in the plugin's Call to Action widget due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (NVD).

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) by NIST with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, while Wordfence assigned a score of 6.4 (Medium) with 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 ('Cross-site Scripting') (NVD).

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page (NVD).

The vulnerability requires an authenticated user with at least contributor-level privileges to exploit. The attack can be executed remotely through the plugin's Call to Action widget (NVD).

A patch has been released to address this vulnerability. Users should update their Exclusive Addons for Elementor plugin to a version newer than 2.6.9.3 (NVD).