CVE-2021-24891 — Elementor < 3.4.8 - DOM Cross-Site-Scripting

Description

The Elementor Website Builder WordPress plugin before 3.4.8 does not sanitise or escape user input appended to the DOM via a malicious hash, resulting in a DOM Cross-Site Scripting issue.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected	Fixed
—	Elementor Website Builder	3.4.8 – < 3.4.8	3.4.8

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

GitHub 1 repository

hackmelocal/CVE-2021-24891-Simulation ★ 0 · Aug 7, 2025

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Automated scanner template

A ready-made Nuclei template detects this vulnerability automatically. Vulnerabilities with public scanner templates are typically probed across the internet soon after the template appears — exposed systems should be patched first.

WordPress Elementor Website Builder <3.1.4 - Cross-Site Scripting http/cves/2021/CVE-2021-24891.yaml

Source: projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates (MIT) — updated daily. Only links are listed.