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CVE-2022-0683: essential addons for elementor lite Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 6.1v3.1MediumModified
Published 24-02-2022Last modified 31-01-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-0683 is a medium (CVSS 6.1) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in essential addons for elementor lite. EPSS estimates a 3.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
25/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.1/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
3.24%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 24-02-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 31-01-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor Lite WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of the settings parameter found in the ~/includes/Traits/Helper.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts onto a pages that executes whenever a user clicks on a specially crafted link by an attacker. This affects versions up to and including 5.0.8.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

3.24%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

88%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.24% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
3.24%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Essential addons for elementor lite1 product
Wordpress1 product
  • essential-addons-for-elementor-lite≤ 5.0.8 (fixed in 5.0.9)
Wpdeveloper1 product

3 vendors · 3 products

References

3 links