SB2025053026 - Stored cross-site scripting in Royal Elementor Addons and Templates plugin for WordPress

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Stored cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-12120)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within the Countdown widget in display_message_text parameter. A remote user can inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3236381/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1008/modules/countdown/widgets/wpr-countdown.php?old=3220755&old_path=royal-elementor-addons%2Ftags%2F1.7.1007%2Fmodules%2Fcountdown%2Fwidgets%2Fwpr-countdown.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3285549/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1018/assets/js/frontend.js?old=3277554&old_path=royal-elementor-addons%2Ftags%2F1.7.1017%2Fassets%2Fjs%2Ffrontend.js
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5ee7b4d8-c397-41f6-981f-9a010e4ab2f1?source=cve