# The Plus Addons for Elementor <= 6.5.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via GSAP Text Animation

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1797
- **Plugin:** The Plus Addons for Elementor – Mega Menu, Header Footer, Post Grid, AI Widgets & Templates (`the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/
- **Affected versions:** from 6.4.6 before 6.6.0
- **Fixed in:** 6.6.0 (Update to 6.6.0 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-79
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Medium, affected versions Medium (as of 2026-10-28)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-27
- **Published:** 2026-10-28
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1797/

## Description

The The Plus Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the GSAP text animation option of the Heading Title and Text Block widgets in versions 6.4.6 up to, and including, 6.5.3, due to insufficient output escaping. The frontend script stored the element's entity-decoded text and the typing and scramble effects wrote it back with innerHTML. 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.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1797/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/tags/6.6.0/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1797/

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.