CVE-2024-54314: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was identified in NicheAddons Primary Addon for Elementor plugin, tracked as CVE-2024-54314. The vulnerability affects versions through 1.6.0 of the Primary Addon for Elementor plugin. The issue was discovered by João Pedro S Alcântara (Kinorth) and was publicly disclosed on December 11, 2024 (Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (CWE-79). It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability requires Contributor-level privileges or higher to exploit (Patchstack).

This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when guests visit the affected site (Patchstack).

The vulnerability requires an authenticated user with Contributor-level access or higher to exploit. The security issue has been assessed as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited (Patchstack).

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.6.2 of the Primary Addon for Elementor plugin. Users are advised to update to version 1.6.2 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users have the option to enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).