---
id: "CVE-2026-120524"
kind: "vulnerability"
aliases: ["CVE-2026-120524"]
title: "News Kit Addons for Elementor: stored XSS lets subscribers inject scripts"
severity: "medium"
cvss: 6.4
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "package"
products: []
ecosystems: []
tags: ["elementor", "package", "self-hosted", "wordpress"]
not_affected_if: ["no-subscriber-accounts", "plugin-not-installed"]
published_at: "2026-11-03T05:18:31+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-11-03T05:48:52+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-11-03T05:49:55+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "nvd", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-120524", "first_seen_at": "2026-11-03T05:48:52+00:00"}]
---

# News Kit Addons for Elementor: stored XSS lets subscribers inject scripts

The News Kit Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin up to and including 1.4.8 fails to sanitize the formData parameter. An authenticated subscriber can store scripts that run in the browser of anyone who opens the injected page.

_Summary, check and fix written by a model from the sources; labelled as such._

## How to check

- Check the installed version of the News Kit Addons For Elementor plugin in the WordPress admin plugins list; versions up to and including `1.4.8` are affected.
- Confirm whether subscriber-level accounts can log in to the site.

## Fix

- News Kit Addons For Elementor: unknown (the sources do not state a fixed version).

## Timeline

- 2026-11-03T05:48:52+00:00 nvd https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-120524

## From the sources

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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