Vulnerability in Gum Addon for Elementor — CVE-2026-8354
MediumSeverity
0.3%Estimated exploit probability
50,000+ sitesInstalls
1.3.16Fixed in
What to do now
Update Gum Addon for Elementor to 1.3.16 or later.
Affected versions
- Everything up to and including 1.3.15
Affected: Gum Addon for Elementor (plugin, gum-elementor-addon)
What the vulnerability is
The Gum Addon for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'pop_tag' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.15 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.
Sources
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gum-elementor-addon/tags/1.3.15/widgets/popover_btn.php#L726
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gum-elementor-addon/tags/1.3.15/widgets/popover_btn.php#L767
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gum-elementor-addon/trunk/widgets/popover_btn.php#L726
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gum-elementor-addon/trunk/widgets/popover_btn.php#L767
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3556711%40gum-elementor-addon&new=3556711%40gum-elementor-addon
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/143c3a66-ac67-48e1-800f-8479fd963da3?source=cve