Medium severity · published Feb 24, 2022
CVE-2022-0683
The Essential Addons for Elementor Lite WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of the settings parameter found in the…
6.1
CVSS
3.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Essential Addons for Elementor Lite WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of the settings parameter found in the ~/includes/Traits/Helper.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts onto a pages that executes whenever a user clicks on a specially crafted link by an attacker. This affects versions up to and including 5.0.8.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.2% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EA
Essential Addons For Elementor · Wpdeveloper
through 5.0.8 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0683
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0683
Patch
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2680585%40essential-addons-for-elementor-lite&new=2680585%40essential-addons-for-elementor-lite&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-0683
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