CVE-2024-8494

Elementor Website Builder Pro – More than Just a Page Builder <= 3.25.10 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure via Shortcode

2025-01-29 00:00
Ankit Patel

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.25.11
Affected Plugin
Elementor Website Builder Pro
Affected Version
<= 3.25.10
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE
CVE-2024-8494
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At a glance

CVE-2024-8494 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Elementor Website Builder Pro WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.25.10. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Contributor level or above. The issue is fixed in version 3.25.11; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by Ankit Patel.

Vulnerability Overview

The Elementor Website Builder Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.25.10 via the 'elementor-template' shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including the content of Private, Pending, and Draft Templates. The vulnerability was partially patched in version 3.24.4.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Elementor Website Builder Pro <= 3.25.10 carries this weakness at elementor-template, and reaching it takes an account at Contributor level or above. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.

The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. For Elementor Website Builder Pro the fix is 3.25.11: builds <= 3.25.10 are affected, anything from 3.25.11 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.25.11, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: Elementor Website Builder Pro 3.25.11 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8494https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/94ada60f-1e20-454e-a9d7-7849be764d81https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8494

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