CVE-2024-8978

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

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
5.7Medium
Weakness type
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE
CVE-2024-8978
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At a glance

CVE-2024-8978 is a medium-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 5.7 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Contributor 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_register_user_email_controls' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including usernames and passwords of any users who register via the Login | Register Form widget, as long as that user opens the email notification for successful registration.

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.

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

Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.0.9 carries this weakness at init_content_register_user_email_controls, 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 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.

  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8978https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/baae8fb9-b87c-4f61-88da-871c4c83615bhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8978

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