CVE-2025-58796: Elementor Element Condition XSS Vulnerability

CVE-2025-58796 Overview

CVE-2025-58796 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability [CWE-79] in the dudaster Elementor Element Condition (ele-conditions) plugin for WordPress. The flaw affects all plugin versions up to and including 1.0.5. Authenticated users with low-level privileges can inject malicious JavaScript that persists in the database and executes in the browsers of other users who view the affected page.

Critical Impact

Attackers with low-privilege authenticated access can store malicious scripts that execute against site visitors and administrators, potentially leading to session theft, content manipulation, or account takeover.

Affected Products

• dudaster Elementor Element Condition plugin (ele-conditions) versions up to and including 1.0.5
• WordPress sites running the vulnerable plugin
• Elementor page builder installations using this add-on

Discovery Timeline

• 2025-09-05 - CVE-2025-58796 published to the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
• 2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-58796

Vulnerability Analysis

The vulnerability stems from improper neutralization of user-supplied input during web page generation. The plugin accepts input intended for element condition configuration but fails to sanitize or encode that input before rendering it in the HTML output. This allows an authenticated attacker to inject arbitrary JavaScript that is stored in the WordPress database.

When a victim loads a page containing the tainted condition data, the injected script executes in the victim's browser under the site's origin. This scope-changing behavior (S:C in the CVSS vector) means the impact extends beyond the vulnerable component to the users' browser sessions. Successful exploitation requires user interaction, typically visiting the affected page.

Root Cause

The root cause is missing output encoding and input sanitization in the plugin's condition-handling logic. The ele-conditions plugin does not apply WordPress escaping functions such as esc_html(), esc_attr(), or wp_kses() to attacker-controlled fields before echoing them into page markup. This lets HTML and script payloads survive round-trips through the database.

Attack Vector

Exploitation requires an authenticated account with permission to configure Elementor element conditions (typically contributor-level or higher). The attacker submits a crafted payload through the plugin's condition interface. The payload is persisted and later rendered without escaping, executing in the browser of any user who loads the affected content. See the Patchstack Elementor XSS Vulnerability advisory for reference details.

No public proof-of-concept is available in the enriched data. The vulnerability manifests through standard stored XSS mechanics against WordPress plugin input fields.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-58796

Indicators of Compromise

• Unexpected <script>, onerror, onload, or javascript: strings stored in wp_postmeta or wp_options entries associated with ele-conditions
• New or modified administrator accounts created shortly after low-privilege user activity on Elementor pages
• Outbound requests from browsers loading Elementor pages to unfamiliar third-party domains

Detection Strategies

• Review WordPress database tables for HTML or JavaScript payloads within Elementor condition metadata fields
• Audit plugin version inventory across WordPress sites and flag installations of ele-conditions at version 1.0.5 or earlier
• Enable and inspect Content Security Policy (CSP) violation reports to identify inline script execution attempts

Monitoring Recommendations

• Monitor WordPress audit logs for condition edits performed by contributor or editor accounts
• Alert on browser-side script errors and CSP violations originating from pages using Elementor
• Track anomalous session activity, such as cookie theft indicators, following visits to Elementor-rendered pages

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-58796

Immediate Actions Required

• Identify all WordPress sites running the ele-conditions plugin at version 1.0.5 or earlier and prioritize remediation
• Restrict Elementor editing permissions to trusted accounts and audit existing low-privilege users
• Purge any suspicious condition entries from the database that contain executable HTML or JavaScript

Patch Information

At the time of NVD publication, no fixed version is listed in the enriched data. The advisory indicates the issue affects versions through 1.0.5 with no patched release specified. Consult the Patchstack advisory for the latest patch status and vendor updates.

Workarounds

• Deactivate and remove the ele-conditions plugin until a patched version is released
• Deploy a web application firewall (WAF) rule to block XSS payloads targeting Elementor condition endpoints
• Implement a strict Content Security Policy that disallows inline scripts and untrusted origins
• Limit contributor and editor role assignments to reduce the population of accounts capable of exploitation

# Configuration example: enforce strict CSP via .htaccess
Header set Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self'; script-src 'self'; object-src 'none'; base-uri 'self'; frame-ancestors 'self'"