Premium Addons For ElementorWordPress extension · Leap13
CVE-2024-1242
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe Premium Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the button onclick attribute in all versions up to, and including, 4.10.18 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidencePremium Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress versions up to 4.10.18 contain a stored XSS vulnerability in the button onclick attribute due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. Authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher can inject arbitrary JavaScript that executes when users view injected pages.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Premium Addons For ElementorWordPress extension
< 4.10.19CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Check installed plugin versionIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins, find 'Premium Addons for Elementor' by Leap13, and note the version number displayedAffected if The installed version is earlier than 4.10.19 (versions up to 4.10.18 are affected)
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Verify user access levelCheck if any user accounts have Contributor-level or higher access to the WordPress adminAffected if At least one user with Contributor-level or higher access exists in the system
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Identify button widget usageReview pages and posts created with Elementor that use the Premium Addons button widget, particularly those with custom onclick attributesAffected if Pages or posts contain button widgets from Premium Addons with custom onclick JavaScript
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Inspect page source for XSS payloadView the HTML source of pages using the Premium Addons button widget and search for the onclick attribute to see if user-supplied values are properly escapedAffected if The onclick attribute contains unescaped quotes or raw user input without proper sanitization
Your environment is affected if the Premium Addons for Elementor plugin version is below 4.10.19 and you have content using the button widget with custom onclick attributes accessible to users with contributor-level permissions.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scoped4.10.19
Update the Premium Addons for Elementor plugin to version 4.10.19 or later, which includes proper sanitization of the onclick attribute value and output escaping.
Premium Addons For Elementor 4.10.19
- Log in to the WordPress admin dashboard
- Navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins
- Locate Premium Addons For Elementor in the plugin list
- Check if the current version is below 4.10.19
- If vulnerable, click Update Now on the Premium Addons For Elementor plugin
- Verify the update completed successfully
- Confirm the new version is 4.10.19 or later
Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.
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Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation1.0 h
- Testing1.0 h
- Review / QA1.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2024-1242 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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