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CVE-2025-1457:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Element Pack Addons for Elementor plugin (versions up to 5.10.28) contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-1457) discovered on April 19, 2025. The vulnerability affects the Wrapper Link, Countdown, and Gallery widgets due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). It has received 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, indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, and required privileges (Wordfence).
Impact
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 compromised page (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should update their Element Pack Addons for Elementor plugin to a version newer than 5.10.28 when available. Until then, it is recommended to restrict Contributor and Author role access to the affected widgets (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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