Essential Real Estate: A security weakness
Essential Real Estate is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Essential Real Estate
- Plugin slug
essential-real-estate- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 08, 2024
- Weakness
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
This CVE was published Jan 08, 2024 and is one of 13 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Essential Real Estate 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 Real Estate WordPress plugin before 4.4.0 does not apply proper capability checks on its AJAX actions, which among other things, allow attackers with a subscriber account to conduct Denial of Service attacks.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H