CVE-2026-15299
MediumCVSS 6.4Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk9th percentile - higher than 9% of all known CVEs
Summary
The Animation Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'weather_style' and 'move_direction' parameters of the Weather widget in all versions up to and including 2.6.3. This is due to insufficient output escaping in the widget's render() function.
Risk Assessment
An authenticated attacker with Contributor-level access or higher can inject malicious JavaScript that executes in visitors' browsers, potentially leading to session theft, redirects, or site defacement.
Recommendation
Update the Animation Addons for Elementor plugin to the latest available version immediately. If no update is available, temporarily disable the Weather widget or restrict page editing access to trusted users.
Other vulnerabilities in Animation Addons for Elementor
See all- CVE-2026-17565High
The Animation Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 2.7.2 does not validate a user-supplied value before using it to build the host of a server-side HTTP request, allowing unauthenticated users to make the site issue requests to internal hosts and read the responses back.
- CVE-2026-13330Medium
The Animation Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 2.7.0 does not sanitize uploaded SVG/SVGZ files, which it adds to the list of allowed upload types. Users with the upload_files capability (Author and above) can upload files containing malicious JavaScript, leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting.
- CVE-2025-8444Medium
The Animation Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin up to version 2.6.7 has a DOM-Based Stored XSS vulnerability via multiple parameters due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. Authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher can inject arbitrary scripts.
- CVE-2026-39702Medium
The Animation Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress (versions up to and including 2.6.1) contains a DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to improper input neutralization during page generation. An attacker can inject a malicious script that executes in the victim's browser.
Original NVD description (English source)
The Animation Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'weather_style' and 'move_direction' parameters of the Weather widget in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.3. This is due to insufficient output escaping in the Weather widget's render() function at widgets/weather.php:1246, where both settings values are placed into an HTML class attribute without esc_attr(). Elementor does not server-side validate widget SELECT control values against allowed options on save, so an authenticated attacker with Contributor-level access or above can submit a crafted save_builder AJAX request storing arbitrary values in the _elementor_data post meta. The stored payload renders unescaped on every frontend visit to the affected page (the Weather widget requires an OpenWeatherMap API key to reach the vulnerable output, which is the normal operational state for sites using this widget).