# Make Column Clickable Elementor <= 1.7.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'data-column-clickable' Attribute

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1700
- **Plugin:** Make Column Clickable for Elementor (`make-column-clickable-elementor`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/make-column-clickable-elementor/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 1.7.3
- **Fixed in:** 1.7.3 (Update to 1.7.3 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-79
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Medium, affected versions Medium (as of 2026-10-27)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/make-column-clickable-elementor
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-26
- **Published:** 2026-10-27
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1700/

## Description

The Make Column Clickable for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'data-column-clickable' attribute in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.2. This is due to the front-end script using the attribute value of any matching element on the page as a link target without validating the URL scheme. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to embed an element with a javascript: URL in post content, which executes arbitrary script in the browser of a user who clicks the element.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1700/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/make-column-clickable-elementor/tags/1.7.3/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/make-column-clickable-elementor/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1700/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.