CVE-2026-15156

Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.6.11 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Reading Progress Global Color Settings

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.

We have discovered 265,049 live websites that are affected by CVE-2026-15156.

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Affected Software

Product  Essential Addons for Elementor
Category Wordpress Plugins
Vulnerable Domains265,049 live websites (100% of Essential Addons for Elementor install base)
Vulnerable Versions
  • from 0 through 6.6.11
Vulnerable Versions Count166 versions ( 98% of all versions)


Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')



Details

  • Published - Jul 21, 2026
  • Updated - Jul 22, 2026

Credits

  • Jonah Burgess (CryptoCat) (finder)

Website Distribution by Country

Number of websites using CVE-2026-15156
United States80,758 websites


Germany24,895 websites
France15,491 websites
Brazil11,832 websites
GB11,454 websites
Spain8,822 websites
Italy8,270 websites
India8,094 websites
Netherlands6,847 websites
Poland5,757 websites

Website Distribution by TLD

Number of websites using CVE-2026-15156
.com110,723 websites
.org16,405 websites
.de14,277 websites
.com.br10,668 websites
.fr7,155 websites
.co.uk6,262 websites
.nl5,988 websites
.it5,944 websites
.net4,924 websites
.com.au4,536 websites

Vulnerable Versions

Vulnerable versions are highlighted in red

Websites affected by CVE-2026-15156

Top websites that are affected by CVE-2026-15156. Please click on the "Contact us" link to get more information.
DomainCountryRankContacts
******.net United States*,***
******.com United States*,***
******.com France*,***
******.com United States*,***
********.org United States*,***
********.com United States*,***
********.com Canada*,***
****************.nl United States*,***
*********.com United States*,***
********************.com Thailand**,***
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FAQ

CVE-2026-15156 is Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in Essential Addons for Elementor
A total of 265,049 websites have been identified as vulnerable to CVE-2026-15156, based on global website indexing conducted by WebTechSurvey.
The Essential Addons for Elementor is affected by the CVE-2026-15156 vulnerability.
Essential Addons for Elementor versions up to and including 6.6.11 are vulnerable to CVE-2026-15156.

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