CVE-2026-15156: The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Reading Progress Global Color Setti
The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Reading Progress Global Color Settings in all versions up to, and including, 6.6.11 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.
Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-15156
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-151560.20% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 10% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-15156 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Recent advisories for Essential Addons for
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- mediumCVE-2026-13345: The Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 6.6.10 does not perform authorizati…nvd · 2026-07-30
- mediumCVE-2026-13344: The Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 6.6.10 does not validate the HTML t…nvd · 2026-07-30
- mediumCVE-2026-15145: The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPres…nvd · 2026-07-21
- highCVE-2026-15155: The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPres…nvd · 2026-07-11
- mediumCVE-2026-6459: The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress…nvd · 2026-07-08
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