Ultimate Store KitWordPress extension · Bdthemes
CVE-2024-43342
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 · uneditedImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in BdThemes Ultimate Store Kit Elementor Addons allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Ultimate Store Kit Elementor Addons: from n/a through 1.6.4.
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 · moderate confidenceThis is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Ultimate Store Kit Elementor Addons plugin where user-supplied input is not properly sanitized before being rendered in web pages. An attacker could inject malicious JavaScript code that executes when other users view the affected content.
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
Ultimate Store KitWordPress extension
<= 1.6.4CVSS 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
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/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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Confirm plugin installationIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and look for 'Bdthemes Ultimate Store Kit' or 'Ultimate Store Kit' in the list of active pluginsAffected if The plugin is installed and active
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Identify installed versionIn the Plugins list, find the Ultimate Store Kit entry and locate the version number displayed beneath the plugin nameAffected if Version number is 1.6.4 or lower (e.g., 1.6.4, 1.6.3, 1.6.2, etc.)
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Verify vulnerable feature usageReview pages built with Elementor that use Ultimate Store Kit widgets, particularly any widgets that accept and display user-supplied input or content from frontend submission formsAffected if The plugin's frontend display widgets are being used to render dynamic user content
Your environment is affected if the Bdthemes Ultimate Store Kit plugin version is 1.6.4 or lower and you use its widgets to display dynamic content on your site.
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 · scopedImplement proper input sanitization using WordPress sanitization functions and output encoding/escaping when rendering data in the Elementor addon pages to neutralize malicious scripts.
Latest version of Ultimate Store Kit (version > 1.6.4)
- 1. Log in to your WordPress admin dashboard
- 2. Navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins
- 3. Locate Ultimate Store Kit (by BdThemes)
- 4. Check if an update is available; if so, update to the latest version (version higher than 1.6.4)
- 5. After updating, clear any caching mechanisms (site cache, CDN cache, browser cache)
- 6. Verify the fix by testing that the XSS vulnerability is no longer present in the plugin's input fields
Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.
Fix this in Ultimate Store Kit
Scoped from the published advisory
- Consultation2.0 h
- Implementation4.0 h
- Testing3.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 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.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2024-43342 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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