Premium Addons for Elementor: A security weakness

Premium Addons for Elementor is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least author-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.

CVE / CNA score 3.1 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com

NVD score 4.3 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov

Component: Premium Addons for Elementor
Plugin slug: premium-addons-for-elementor
Affected: See vendor advisory
Safe version: See mitigation notes
Published: Jul 04, 2024
Weakness: CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-1333 — Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

This CVE was published Jul 04, 2024 and is one of 37 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Premium 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.

Source record

Technical description

The Premium Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in all versions up to, and including, 4.10.35. This is due to processing user-supplied input as a regular expression. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to create and query a malicious post title, resulting in slowing server resources.

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

NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

Update, patch or deactivate.

Technical description

Primary and upstream sources