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News Kit Addons For Elementor <= 1.4.8 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via nekit_update_mega_menu_form AJAX Action

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6.4MediumCNA
Exploited
No known exploitation
Fix
No fix listed
Who is exposed
Not reported
14Pcve.now Index 14 of 100 · methodology v3 · provisional
  • Exploitation0/40No signal
  • Exposure3/25Reachable over the network · Data gap: No advisory context yet
  • Reach?/20Reach: unknown (data gap). No tracked technology or package matched
  • Severity6.4/10CVSS 6.4
  • No patch5/5No patch listed yet

What would change the score

  • Would score about 69 if added to CISA KEV
  • Would score about 64 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
  • Would score about 33 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed

CVE-2026-120524 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 6.4 (medium) and affects News Kit Addons For Elementor; no fixed version is listed yet.

Published
Last modified
Published
Not listed in CISA KEV
0.19% · 9th percentile
14/100 · provisional
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

The News Kit Addons For Elementor WordPress plugin is affected by a stored cross-site scripting flaw that lets logged-in users with low-level subscriber accounts inject malicious scripts into website pages. The injected scripts can then run in the browsers of anyone who views the affected pages, potentially including administrators.

Read the original description

The News Kit Addons For Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'formData' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This is possible because an operator-precedence bug in handle_scripts() causes the admin bundle — and its inlined nekit-admin-nonce — to be enqueued on every admin screen accessible to Subscribers (such as /wp-admin/profile.php), and because sanitize_text_field() is applied to the raw JSON string before json_decode(), allowing angle brackets encoded as \u003c/\u003e to survive sanitization and be restored to literal angle brackets, enabling overwrite of _elementor_data on any post.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • blazethemes News Kit Addons For Elementor

    through 1.4.8

Evidence 6

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Corrections

None so far.

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FAQ

Questions about CVE-2026-120524

Is CVE-2026-120524 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-120524?

News Kit Addons For Elementor: through 1.4.8.Source: cve.now feed data