CVE-2024-8236

The Elementor Website Builder – More than Just a Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter of the Icon widget in all versions up to, and including, 3.25.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS v3 6.4 MEDIUM

6.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.1 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/elementor/tags/3.23.4/includes/widgets/icon.php#L489	Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3192020/	Product
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b1305be5-8267-475f-b962-62e3930116e1?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:elementor:website_builder:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:*

History

21 Apr 2025, 15:04

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time		Elementor website Builder Elementor
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:elementor:website_builder:::::free:wordpress::
References	~~() https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/elementor/tags/3.23.4/includes/widgets/icon.php#L489 -~~	() https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/elementor/tags/3.23.4/includes/widgets/icon.php#L489 - Product
References	~~() https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3192020/ -~~	() https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3192020/ - Product
References	~~() https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b1305be5-8267-475f-b962-62e3930116e1?source=cve -~~	() https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b1305be5-8267-475f-b962-62e3930116e1?source=cve - Third Party Advisory

Information

Published : 2024-11-26 14:15

Updated : 2025-04-21 15:04

NVD link : CVE-2024-8236

Mitre link : CVE-2024-8236

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-8236

JSON object : View

Products Affected

elementor

website_builder

CWE

CWE-79

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

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