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CVE-2025-8603: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Unlimited Elements For Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (CVE-2025-8603) via several widgets in versions up to and including 1.5.148. This vulnerability was discovered and reported by Wordfence on August 27, 2025 (Wordfence).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.4 (Medium). The issue stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in several widgets, which allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts (NVD, Rapid7).

Impact

When successfully exploited, the vulnerability allows attackers to inject malicious web scripts that will execute whenever a user accesses an affected page. This could lead to theft of sensitive information, session hijacking, or other client-side attacks against users viewing the compromised pages (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability was fixed in version 1.5.149 of the Unlimited Elements For Elementor plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to protect against this security issue (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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