CVE-2024-1398

Summary

CVE-2024-1398 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Ultimate Bootstrap Elements for Elementor plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in versions 1.3.6 and below, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts. The vulnerability arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the 'heading_title_tag' and 'heading_sub_title_tag' parameters. Successful exploitation results in the execution of malicious scripts whenever an user accesses an injected page.

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