CVE-2024-8979

Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Addon, Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders <= 6.0.9 - Authenticated (Author+) Sensitive Information Exposure to Privilege Escalation

2024-11-14 00:00
wesley (wcraft)

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 6.0.10
Affected Plugin
Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Affected Version
<= 6.0.9
CVSS
8.0High
Weakness type
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE
CVE-2024-8979
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At a glance

CVE-2024-8979 is a high-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 6.0.9. It carries a CVSS score of 8.0 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Author level or above. The issue is fixed in version 6.0.10; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2024, reported by wesley (wcraft).

Vulnerability Overview

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_lostpassword_user_email_controls' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including usernames and passwords of any user, including Administrators, as long as that user opens the email notification for a password change request and images are not blocked by the email client.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

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

Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.0.9 carries this weakness at init_content_lostpassword_user_email_controls, and reaching it takes an account at Author 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 Essential Addons for Elementor the fix is 6.0.10: builds <= 6.0.9 are affected, anything from 6.0.10 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 6.0.10, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: Essential Addons for Elementor 6.0.10 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-2024-8979https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/34d09086-be33-40cf-b5bf-d6c03cf0b68ahttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8979

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