CVE-2026-9243

The Plus Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'carousel_direction' parameter of the Carousel Anything widget in versions up to, and including, 6.4.15 This is due to insufficient output escaping in the render() function, where the carousel_direction value is placed into an unquoted HTML attribute (dir=) allowing attribute injection despite the use of esc_attr(). 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.

Score: CVSS 3.1 6.4 Medium
Status: Deferred - security@wordfence.com
Published: 2026-05-29
Last modified: 2026-05-29
Weaknesses: CWE-79

Affected products

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/tags/6.4.15/modules/widgets/tp_ca…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/tags/6.4.15/modules/widgets/tp_ca…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fthe-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/tags/6.4.15&new_pat…
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/699e41ad-1991-4100-9ef2-caea7743e45b?source=cve