CVE-2021-24258

Elements Kit Lite/Pro <= 2.1.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2021-04-13 00:00
Ram

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.2.0
Affected Plugin
ElementsKit Elementor Addons – Advanced Widgets & Templates Addons for Elementor
Affected Version
<= 2.1.7
CVSS
5.4Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2021-24258
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At a glance

CVE-2021-24258 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the ElementsKit Elementor Addons WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.1.7. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Contributor level or above. The issue is fixed in version 2.2.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2021, reported by Ram.

Vulnerability Overview

The Elements Kit Lite and Elements Kit Pro WordPress Plugins before 2.2.0 have a number of widgets that are vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) by lower-privileged users such as contributors, all via a similar method.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Reaching this weakness in ElementsKit Elementor Addons <= 2.1.7 takes an account at Contributor level or above. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.

Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For ElementsKit Elementor Addons the fix is 2.2.0: builds <= 2.1.7 are affected, anything from 2.2.0 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.2.0, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Contributor access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: ElementsKit Elementor Addons 2.2.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24258https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/75d5366e-2908-4b8d-9ee2-1f11e483add1https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24258

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