CVE-2026-120524 json
News Kit Addons For Elementor <= 1.4.8 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via nekit_update_mega_menu_form AJAX Action
published 6d ago modified 6d ago also EUVD-2026-115664
- cvss
- 6.4
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
The News Kit Addons For Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'formData' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This is possible because an operator-precedence bug in handle_scripts() causes the admin bundle — and its inlined nekit-admin-nonce — to be enqueued on every admin screen accessible to Subscribers (such as /wp-admin/profile.php), and because sanitize_text_field() is applied to the raw JSON string before json_decode(), allowing angle brackets encoded as \u003c/\u003e to survive sanitization and be restored to literal angle brackets, enabling overwrite of _elementor_data on any post.
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- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 6d ago
Exploit prediction
0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
Affected products
- blazethemes News Kit Addons For Elementor
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
- Technology feeds
References
- wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7793c171-8aca-461c-9942-9f4d075be5ae?source=cve
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/news-kit-elementor-addons/tags/1.4.7/admin/admin.php#L1582
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/news-kit-elementor-addons/tags/1.4.7/admin/admin.php#L1578
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/news-kit-elementor-addons/tags/1.4.7/admin/admin.php#L732
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/news-kit-elementor-addons/tags/1.4.7/admin/admin.php#L748
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /changeset?reponame=&old=3749965%40news-kit-elementor-addons&new=3749965%40news-kit-elementor-addons
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-120524
- NVD CVE-2026-120524
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