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WordPress Plugin: elementor: CVE-2025-4566: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jul 28, 2025
Added
Jul 29, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Elementor Website Builder – More Than Just a Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the data-text DOM element attribute in Text Path widget in all versions up to, and including, 3.30.2 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. This attack affects only Chrome/Edge browsers

Solution

elementor-plugin-cve-2025-4566
Title
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