CVE-2021-24201 — Cross-site Scripting in Website Builder

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting3 documents3 sources
Severity
5.4MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 69.05%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Elementor Website Builder
Timeline
PublishedApr 5
Latest updateMay 24

Description

In the Elementor Website Builder WordPress plugin before 3.1.4, the column element (includes/elements/column.php) accepts an ‘html_tag’ parameter. Although the element control lists a fixed set of possible html tags, it is possible for a user with Contributor or above permissions to send a modified ‘save_builder’ request containing JavaScript in the ‘html_tag’ parameter, which is not filtered and is output without escaping. This JavaScript will then be executed when the saved page is viewed or p…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.3 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages1 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-vf33-c85r-62wf: In the Elementor Website Builder WordPress plugin before 3↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
Elementor < 3.1.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Column Element↗2021-04-05
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