Description
The Events Addon for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Typewriter and Countdown widgets in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Published: 2025-08-29
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: Stored Cross‑Site Scripting
Action: Patch Immediately
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-28795 The Events Addon for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Typewriter and Countdown widgets in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
History

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 08:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Nicheaddons
Nicheaddons events Addon For Elementor
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Nicheaddons
Nicheaddons events Addon For Elementor
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Events Addon for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Typewriter and Countdown widgets in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Title Events Addon for Elementor <= 2.2.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Typewriter and Countdown Widgets
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:20:18.520Z

Reserved: 2025-07-24T21:50:42.399Z

Link: CVE-2025-8150

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-08-29T16:23:18.167Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2025-08-29T09:15:33.277

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2025-8150

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-04-20T22:00:11Z

Weaknesses