Essential Addons for Elementor: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
Essential Addons for Elementor is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- Essential Addons for Elementor
- Plugin slug
essential-addons-for-elementor- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Oct 16, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Oct 16, 2024 and is one of 33 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Essential Addons for Elementor to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to and including 4.6.4 due to a lack of restrictions on who can add a registration form and a custom registration role to an Elementor created page. This makes it possible for attackers with access to the Elementor page builder to create a new registration form that defaults to the user role being set to administrator and subsequently register as an administrative user.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H