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News Kit Elementor Addons <= 1.2.1 — Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure via Canvas Menu Elementor Template

CVE-2024-9541Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.2.1Update to 1.2.2 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-200 Information Exposure
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

News Kit Addons For Elementor news-kit-elementor-addons

  1. Affected≤ 1.2.1
  2. Patched in1.2.2

Update to 1.2.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.2.1. Version 1.2.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under News Kit Addons For Elementor.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.2.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch News Kit Addons For Elementor to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Nishiv.

The News Kit Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 via the render function in includes/widgets/canvas-menu/canvas-menu.php. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive private, pending, and draft Elementor template data.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in News Kit Addons For Elementor

All 10
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.5Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection
≤1.5.0No patch available
CVE-2026-118073
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤1.4.7No patch available
CVE-2026-97353
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤1.4.8Update to 1.4.9
CVE-2026-97352
Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via nekit_update_mega_menu_form AJAX Action
≤1.4.8Update to 1.4.9
CVE-2026-120524
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Site Logo Title and Single Author Box Widgets
≤1.4.6Update to 1.4.7
CVE-2026-11390

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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