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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.4 Medium

CVE-2026-6127

Elementor Website Builder <= 4.0.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via REST API

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
Wordfence

Description

The Elementor Website Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the _elementor_data meta field in versions up to, and including, 4.0.4. This is due to insufficient input sanitization when processing form-encoded REST API requests. The plugin registers the _elementor_data meta field with show_in_rest but omits a sanitize_callback, relying instead on a rest_pre_insert_post filter (sanitize_post_data function) that only sanitizes JSON-encoded request bodies. When a contributor sends a form-encoded PATCH request to the WordPress REST API, the json_decode() call on the raw body returns null, causing all sanitization to be skipped. The unsanitized data is then stored via update_post_meta() and later output without escaping through multiple widget sinks including the HTML widget's print_unescaped_setting() function. 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 products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

elemntor Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to ≤ 4.0.4affected

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