CVE-2024-1536

Summary

CVE-2024-1536 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress. Versions up to and including 5.9.9 are vulnerable to this issue. The vulnerability lies in the plugin's event calendar widget, where insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes lead to the injection of arbitrary web scripts. This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to execute malicious scripts whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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