CVE-2025-9698 (GCVE-0-2025-9698)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-13 06:00 – Updated: 2025-10-14 20:25
VLAI
Title
The Plus Addons for Elementor < 6.3.16 - Author+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Plus Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 6.3.16 does not sanitize SVG file contents, which could allow users with minimum role access as Author to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a9539def-d92b-41… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown The Plus Addons for Elementor Affected: 0 , < 6.3.16 (semver)
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Credits
Tan Nguyen WPScan
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