CVE-2025-8451

Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates and Widgets <= 6.2.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'data-gallery-items'

MEDIUM
6.4
CVSS Score
Published: August 15, 2025 at 06:40 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 10:07 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorEssential Addons for Elementor

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Severity
MEDIUM6.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘data-gallery-items’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.2.2 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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 6.2.2

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

6.4MEDIUMWordfence
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-79

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