CVE-2024-5542

Master Addons – Free Widgets, Hover Effects, Toggle, Conditions, Animations for Elementor <= 2.0.6.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Navigation Menu Widget

2024-06-06 00:00
Webbernaut

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.0.6.2
Affected Plugin
Master Addons for Elementor – Elementor Addons, Widgets, Mega Menu Builder, Popup Builder, Widget Builder & Template Kits
Affected Version
<= 2.0.6.1
CVSS
7.2High
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2024-5542
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At a glance

CVE-2024-5542 is a high-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Master Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.0.6.1. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.0.6.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2024, reported by Webbernaut.

Vulnerability Overview

The Master Addons – Free Widgets, Hover Effects, Toggle, Conditions, Animations for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Navigation Menu widget of the plugin's Mega Menu extension in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

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

Reaching this weakness in Master Addons for Elementor <= 2.0.6.1 takes no account at all. 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 Master Addons for Elementor the fix is 2.0.6.2: builds <= 2.0.6.1 are affected, anything from 2.0.6.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.0.6.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Master Addons for Elementor 2.0.6.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5542https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5151f429-b1f3-43d4-94cf-3ff382b80190https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5542

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