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CVE-2025-6244: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates and Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (CVE-2025-6244) via the Calendar and Business Reviews Widgets attributes in versions up to 6.1.19. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on July 7, 2025 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the Calendar and Business Reviews Widgets attributes. This security flaw has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/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).

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, potentially leading to unauthorized data access or manipulation of user interactions (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 6.1.20 of the Essential Addons for Elementor plugin. Users are strongly advised to update to this version or later to protect against potential attacks (WordPress Plugin Repository).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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