Stored cross-site scripting in Elementor Page Builder - CVE-2020-13865
Published: June 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU28776
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13865
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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. A remote authenticated attacker can apply custom attributes to widgets to 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.
Affected software
Elementor Page Builder
How to mitigate CVE-2020-13865
Install update from vendor's website.
Elementor Page Builder - update to 2.9.9