WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2024-8978 Analyzed

Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Addon, Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders: Sensitive information exposure

Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Addon, Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders is affected by sensitive information exposure. Exploitation requires at least contributor-level access. Successful exploitation can disclose data that should not be available to the caller.

CVE / CNA score 5.7 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Addon, Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders
Plugin slug
essential-addons-for-elementor-lite
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Nov 15, 2024
Weakness
CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
NVD-CWE-noinfo

This CVE was published Nov 15, 2024 and is one of 29 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Patch or disable the affected component.

Update Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Addon, Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

Source record

Technical description

The Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Addon, Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.9 via the 'init_content_register_user_email_controls' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including usernames and passwords of any users who register via the Login | Register Form widget, as long as that user opens the email notification for successful registration.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources