CVE-2024-12120: Royal Elementor Addons and Templates <= 1.7.1017 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Description
The Royal Elementor Addons and Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Countdown widget display_message_text parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.1017 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2024-12120
CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS Base Score: 5.4
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Problem Types
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Affected Products
Vendor: wproyal
Product: Royal Elementor Addons and Templates
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 7.57% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-06-05 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12120https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5ee7b4d8-c397-41f6-981f-9a010e4ab2f1?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3236381/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1008/modules/countdown/widgets/wpr-countdown.php?old=3220755&old_path=royal-elementor-addons%2Ftags%2F1.7.1007%2Fmodules%2Fcountdown%2Fwidgets%2Fwpr-countdown.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3285549/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1018/assets/js/frontend.js?old=3277554&old_path=royal-elementor-addons%2Ftags%2F1.7.1017%2Fassets%2Fjs%2Ffrontend.js