CVE-2025-8451 - CVE House

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Status published Medium 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'

6.4 CVSS

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Craig Smith

References

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Affected Vendor

wpdevteam

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Affected Software

Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets

Vulnerable Versions:

0

Timeline

Official Publish: August 15th, 2025

Last Modified: April 8th, 2026

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1189 Drive-by Compromise

T1059.007 JavaScript

T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie

T1213 Data from Information Repositories

T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service

T1491.001 Defacement