CVE-2026-8613
What it is
The aThemes Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'title_tag' Widget Setting in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.8 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. This affects the Posts Timeline widget as well as the Posts Carousel widget across its default, Banner, and Modern skins, all of which omit the whitelist validation that is correctly applied in the Posts List widget.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network with a low-privilege account. Limited direct impact.
- Exploit odds
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- No patch or advisory is linked yet. Look at mitigations or restrict exposure.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.2% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting
- Record status
- Deferred
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 6.4
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/athemes-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/1.1.8/inc/functions.php#L1375
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/athemes-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/1.1.8/inc/modules/widgets/posts-carousel/class-posts-carousel.php#L1413
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/athemes-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/1.1.8/inc/modules/widgets/posts-carousel/skins/class-posts-carousel-banner.php#L226
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/athemes-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/1.1.8/inc/modules/widgets/posts-carousel/skins/class-posts-carousel-modern.php#L208
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/athemes-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/1.1.8/inc/modules/widgets/posts-timeline/class-posts-timeline.php#L1351
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/athemes-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/1.1.9/inc/functions.php#L1374
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/athemes-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/1.1.8&new_path=/athemes-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/1.1.9
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2e7aed9e-1b56-4ce6-b338-1d9ab80594c3?source=cve