Vulnerabilities and security researches foressential-widgets essential-widgets

Jun 07, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2021-24752
Home page URL: Security reports for Essential Widgets
Application: Essential Widgets
Date: Oct 18, 2021
Research Description: Multiple Plugins from the CatchThemes vendor do not perform capability and CSRF checks in the ctp_switch AJAX action, which could allow any authenticated users, such as Subscriber to change the Essential Widgets WordPress plugin before 1.9, To Top WordPress plugin before 2.3, Header Enhancement WordPress plugin before 1.5, Generate Child Theme WordPress plugin before 1.6, Essential Content Types WordPress plugin before 1.9, Catch Web Tools WordPress plugin before 2.7, Catch Under Construction WordPress plugin before 1.4, Catch Themes Demo Import WordPress plugin before 1.6, Catch Sticky Menu WordPress plugin before 1.7, Catch Scroll Progress Bar WordPress plugin before 1.6, Social Gallery and Widget WordPress plugin before 2.3, Catch Infinite Scroll WordPress plugin before 1.9, Catch Import Export WordPress plugin before 1.9, Catch Gallery WordPress plugin before 1.7, Catch Duplicate Switcher WordPress plugin before 1.6, Catch Breadcrumb WordPress plugin before 1.7, Catch IDs WordPress plugin before 2.4's configurations.
Affected versions: max 1.9.
Status: vulnerable

Jan 10, 2026

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-67543
Home page URL: Security reports for Essential Widgets
Application: Essential Widgets
Date: Dec 09, 2025
Research Description: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Catch Themes Essential Widgets essential-widgets allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Essential Widgets: from n/a through <= 2.2.2.
Affected versions: max 2.2.2.
Status: vulnerable

Apr 15, 2026

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2026-0867
Home page URL: Security reports for Essential Widgets
Application: Essential Widgets
Date: Feb 05, 2026
Research Description: The Essential Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's ew-author, ew-archive, ew-category, ew-page, and ew-menu shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 3.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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. NOTE: This vulnerability was partially fixed in version 3.0.
Affected versions: max 3.0.1.
Status: vulnerable