CVE-2024-1166 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Image Hover Effects – Elementor Addon plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Image Hover Effects Widget in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00084.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3068751%40image-hover-effects-addon-for-elementor&new=3068751%40image-hover-effects-addon-for-elementor&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4d72a57f-9acc-43e4-af81-024bc6e0d3fd?source=cve

History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2024-05-09T20:03:24.795Z

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:51:29.211Z

Reserved: 2024-02-01T17:35:45.489Z

Link: CVE-2024-1166

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:33:24.140Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-14T14:45:09.523

Modified: 2026-04-08T18:20:28.980

Link: CVE-2024-1166

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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