| Title | WordPress Elementor Website Builder <= 3.5.5 - DOM Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | rotembar,daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the victim's browser, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected website. |
| Remediation | Upgrade WordPress Elementor Website Builder to version 3.5.6 or later to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.48769 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-29455 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 xss wordpress elementor passive vuln |
WordPress Elementor Website Builder plugin 3.5.5 and prior contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability via the document object model.
GET /wp-content/plugins/elementor/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.2.1 Safari/605.1.1
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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