# CVE-2026-9243: The Plus Addons for Elementor \<= 6.4.15 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'carousel\_direction' Parameter

- 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: 2026-05-29 · Updated: 2026-05-29

## Affected

- posimyththemes The Plus Addons for Elementor – Addons for Elementor, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce: through 6.4.15

## Description

The Plus Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'carousel_direction' parameter of the Carousel Anything widget in versions up to, and including, 6.4.15 This is due to insufficient output escaping in the render() function, where the carousel_direction value is placed into an unquoted HTML attribute (dir=) allowing attribute injection despite the use of esc_attr(). 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 posimyththemes The Plus Addons for Elementor – Addons for Elementor, Page Templates, Widgets, Mega Menu, WooCommerce, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/699e41ad-1991-4100-9ef2-caea7743e45b?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/tags/6.4.15/modules/widgets/tp_carousel_anything.php#L1187
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/tags/6.4.15/modules/widgets/tp_carousel_anything.php#L1143
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fthe-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/tags/6.4.15&new_path=%2Fthe-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/tags/6.4.16

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