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Responsive Starter Templates – Elementor & WordPress Templates <= 2.6.8 — Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Action summary

Affected: ≤2.6.8Update to 2.6.9 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium5.5
CVSS
5.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:H Privileges required
High
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Responsive Starter Templates – Elementor Templates & Starter Sites responsive-add-ons

  1. Affected≤ 2.6.8
  2. Patched in2.6.9

Update to 2.6.9 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.6.8. Version 2.6.9 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Responsive Starter Templates – Elementor Templates & Starter Sites.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.6.9, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Responsive Starter Templates – Elementor Templates & Starter Sites to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

The Responsive Starter Templates – Elementor & WordPress Templates is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 2.6.8. This allows authenticated users with administrator-level permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. 

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Responsive Starter Templates – Elementor Templates & Starter Sites

All 10
More vulnerabilities in Responsive Starter Templates – Elementor Templates & Starter Sites
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes
≤3.5.3Update to 3.5.4
CVE-2026-15795
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary Code Execution
<3.4.3Update to 3.4.3
CVE-2025-15488
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update
≤3.2.2Update to 3.2.3
CVE-2025-49856
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤3.2.0Update to 3.2.1
CVE-2025-48335
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤3.1.9Update to 3.2.0
CVE-2025-47486

Same weakness (Cross-Site Scripting)

All Cross-Site Scripting
Other Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent HeaderCVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form SubmissionCVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' ParameterCVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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