Is News Kit Addons For Elementor safe to use?

Laskyr does not give safety verdicts. The latest version (1.5.0) has 1 known unpatched vulnerability. As of 2026-11-04, the sources we check list the newest release of News Kit Addons For Elementor as affected and name no fixed version yet. Keep News Kit Addons For Elementor on the latest version (1.5.0) and remove it if you do not use it.

Which versions of News Kit Addons For Elementor are vulnerable?

Known issues on record (newest first): Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) (1.4.8 and older, fixed in 1.4.9); PHP object injection (1.5.0 and older); Missing authorization check (older than 1.4.9, fixed in 1.4.9); Missing authorization check (1.4.7 and older, fixed in 1.4.9); Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) (1.4.6 and older, fixed in 1.4.7); Missing authorization check (1.4.2 and older, fixed in 1.4.3). The full list with sources is on this page.

What is the latest version of News Kit Addons For Elementor?

1.5.0, according to wordpress.org (last updated 2026-10-22). It has 3,000+ active installs.

What should I do if my News Kit Addons For Elementor is out of date?

Take a backup, then update it from Dashboard > Updates (or run wp plugin update news-kit-elementor-addons). If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can. If you think the site was already attacked, run a free scan at https://laskyr.com/scan.

Plugins · news-kit-elementor-addons · data as of 2026-11-04

Is News Kit Addons For Elementor safe? Known vulnerabilities and latest version

Latest version: 1.5.0
Last updated: 2026-10-22
Active installs: 3,000+
Known issues on record: 10
Unpatched in latest: 1
Tested up to WP: 7.1.4 · PHP 5.6+

All-in-one Elementor addons designed specifically for news and magazine websites. — by blazethemes

What to do

There is no fixed version yet. If you can live without News Kit Addons For Elementor for now, deactivate it and delete it until the developer ships a fix.
If you must keep it, limit who can log in (remove unused accounts, especially low-level ones) and put a web application firewall in front of the site.
Watch for an update: get an email when this page changes.
If you ran a vulnerable version and something looks off (spam pages, strange admins, redirects), run the free scan, or have us clean it: Emergency Cleanup, $499.

With WP-CLI: wp plugin get news-kit-elementor-addons --field=version shows what you run; wp plugin update news-kit-elementor-addons updates it.

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Known vulnerabilities

10 on record, newest first. “Affected” is the version range the source gives; “fixed in” is the version the source names, or (marked *) the first wordpress.org release after the last affected version.

medium 6.4 CVE-2026-120524 · published 2026-11-03

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.4.8 and older)

Affected: 1.4.8 and older
Fixed in: 1.4.9 *
Access needed (per CVSS): Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
Range from: CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Wordfence

Details from the advisory

The News Kit Addons For Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'formData' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This is possible because an operator-precedence bug in handle_scripts() causes the admin bundle — and its inlined nekit-admin-nonce — to be enqueued on every admin screen accessible to Subscribers (such as /wp-admin/profile.php), and because sanitize_text_field() is applied to the raw JSON string before json_decode(), allowing angle brackets encoded as \u003c/\u003e to survive sanitization and be restored to literal angle brackets, enabling overwrite of _elementor_data on any post.

NVD CVE-2026-120524 Wordfence advisory Code change (fix)Plugin source

high 8.8 affects latest 1.5.0 CVE-2026-118073 · published 2026-10-29

PHP object injection in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.5.0 and older)

Affected: 1.5.0 and older
Fixed in: no fix listed yet
Access needed (per CVSS): Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
Range from: CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack

Details from the advisory

Subscriber PHP Object Injection in News Kit Elementor Addons <= 1.5.0 versions.

NVD CVE-2026-118073 Patchstack advisory

medium 4.3 CVE-2026-97352 · published 2026-10-24

Missing authorization check in News Kit Addons For Elementor (older than 1.4.9)

Affected: older than 1.4.9
Fixed in: 1.4.9
Access needed (per CVSS): Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
Range from: CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by CISA ADP

Details from the advisory

The News Kit Addons For Elementor WordPress plugin before 1.4.9 does not perform a capability check on one of its AJAX actions, allowing authenticated users with subscriber-level access and above to install and activate a specific News Kit Addons For Elementor WordPress plugin before 1.4.9 from the WordPress.org repository.

NVD CVE-2026-97352 WPScan advisory

medium 5.4 CVE-2026-97353 · published 2026-10-24

Missing authorization check in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.4.7 and older)

Affected: 1.4.7 and older
Fixed in: 1.4.9 *
Access needed (per CVSS): Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
Range from: CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by CISA ADP

Details from the advisory

The News Kit Addons For Elementor WordPress plugin through 1.4.7 does not perform capability or ownership checks before updating post metadata in one of its authenticated AJAX actions, allowing users with subscriber-level access and above to write arbitrary post meta, under attacker-chosen keys, to any post including those owned by other users. This can be used to overwrite protected core metadata and tamper with content created by higher-privileged users.

NVD CVE-2026-97353 WPScan advisory

medium 6.4 CVE-2026-11390 · published 2026-07-14

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.4.6 and older)

Affected: 1.4.6 and older
Fixed in: 1.4.7 *
Access needed (per CVSS): Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
Range from: CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Wordfence

Details from the advisory

The News Kit Addons For Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Site Logo Title and Single Author Box Widgets in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.6 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. Exploitation requires an attacker to intercept and modify the elementor_ajax AJAX save request in order to bypass the client-side SELECT control restrictions and submit arbitrary tag-name values.

NVD CVE-2026-11390 Wordfence advisory Code change (fix)Plugin source

medium 4.3 CVE-2026-25416 · published 2026-02-19

Missing authorization check in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.4.2 and older)

Affected: 1.4.2 and older
Fixed in: 1.4.3 *
Access needed (per CVSS): Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
Range from: CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack

Details from the advisory

Missing Authorization vulnerability in blazethemes News Kit Elementor Addons news-kit-elementor-addons allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects News Kit Elementor Addons: from n/a through <= 1.4.2.

NVD CVE-2026-25416 Patchstack advisory

medium 5.4 CVE-2025-54037 · published 2025-07-16

Missing authorization check in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.3.4 and older)

Affected: 1.3.4 and older
Fixed in: 1.3.5
Access needed (per CVSS): Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
Range from: CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack

Details from the advisory

NVD CVE-2025-54037 Patchstack advisory

medium 6.5 CVE-2025-32196 · published 2025-04-04

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.4.2 and older)

Affected: 1.4.2 and older
Fixed in: 1.4.3 *
Access needed (per CVSS): Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber); someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
Range from: CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack

Details from the advisory

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in blazethemes News Kit Elementor Addons news-kit-elementor-addons allows Stored XSS.This issue affects News Kit Elementor Addons: from n/a through <= 1.4.2.

NVD CVE-2025-32196 Patchstack advisory

medium 6.5 CVE-2024-54260 · published 2024-12-09

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.4.2 and older)

Affected: 1.4.2 and older
Fixed in: 1.4.3 *
Access needed (per CVSS): Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber); someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
Range from: CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack

Details from the advisory

NVD CVE-2024-54260 Patchstack advisory

medium 4.3 CVE-2024-9541 · published 2024-10-22

Information disclosure in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.2.1 and older)

Affected: 1.2.1 and older
Fixed in: 1.2.2 *
Access needed (per CVSS): Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
Range from: CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by NVD

Details from the advisory

The News Kit Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 via the render function in includes/widgets/canvas-menu/canvas-menu.php. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive private, pending, and draft Elementor template data.

NVD CVE-2024-9541 Wordfence advisory Code change (fix)

Recent activity

2026-10-22 — latest release on wordpress.org (1.5.0).
2026-11-03 — Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) disclosed (CVE-2026-120524), fixed in 1.4.9.
2026-10-29 — PHP object injection disclosed (CVE-2026-118073), no fix listed yet.
2026-10-24 — Missing authorization check disclosed (CVE-2026-97352), fixed in 1.4.9.

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Types found in this plugin: Cross-site scripting (XSS) (4) · Missing authorization (4) · PHP object injection (1) · Sensitive data exposure (1)

Where this data comes from

Version, last update, installs: wordpress.org/plugins/news-kit-elementor-addons (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-04.
Vulnerabilities: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
Each record links to its CVE page and to the original advisory (Wordfence, Patchstack or WPScan) where there is one. We only list a CVE here when its references or its advisory name this exact plugin, so a few real issues may be missing; none should be about a different plugin. Spot an error? Email Daniel.

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Is News Kit Addons For Elementor safe? Known vulnerabilities and latest version

The latest version (1.5.0) has 1 known unpatched vulnerability

What to do

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Known vulnerabilities

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.4.8 and older)

PHP object injection in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.5.0 and older)

Missing authorization check in News Kit Addons For Elementor (older than 1.4.9)

Missing authorization check in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.4.7 and older)

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.4.6 and older)

Missing authorization check in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.4.2 and older)

Missing authorization check in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.3.4 and older)

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.4.2 and older)

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.4.2 and older)

Information disclosure in News Kit Addons For Elementor (1.2.1 and older)

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