CVE-2025-1455: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The Royal Elementor Addons and Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Woo Grid widget in versions up to and including 1.7.1012. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on April 11, 2025, and has been assigned CVE-2025-1455. The issue affects the plugin's Woo Grid widget functionality due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping (NVD).

The vulnerability is classified as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium). The attack vector is network-based (AV:N), with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring low privileges (PR:L), no user interaction (UI:N), and affecting changed scope (S:C) with low confidentiality and integrity impact (C:L/I:L) and no availability impact (A:N). The vulnerability is tracked as CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (NVD, Patchstack).

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the affected page, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or other client-side attacks (NVD).

Users should update to version 1.7.1013 or later of the Royal Elementor Addons and Templates plugin, which contains the fix for this vulnerability. The patch includes improved input sanitization and output escaping mechanisms (Patchstack).