{"id":18909408,"date":"2026-05-15T19:36:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/?post_type=topic&#038;p=18909408"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:57:00","slug":"update-bootstrap","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/update-bootstrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Update Bootstrap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a security audit of our website, we identified that ElementsKit Lite bundles an internal copy of Bootstrap 4.0.0 inside&nbsp;<code>widgets\/init\/assets\/js\/widget-scripts.js<\/code>, labeled in the code as &#8220;Ekit Prefixed Bootstrap.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bootstrap 4.0.0 is affected by several known XSS vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-14040, CVE-2018-14041, CVE-2018-14042, CVE-2019-8331), which were patched in Bootstrap 4.1.2 and later. We have confirmed this bundled copy is present in the latest release (v3.9.3) and has not been updated in any published version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We would like to request that the bundled Bootstrap dependency be updated to a patched version (4.6.x or 5.x) in a future release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18909408","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18909408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18909408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18909419,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18909408\/revisions\/18909419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18909408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}