CVE-2024-3733

Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders <= 5.9.15 - Information Exposure

2024-04-24 00:00
Webbernaut

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 5.9.16
Affected Plugin
Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Affected Version
<= 5.9.15
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE
CVE-2024-3733
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At a glance

CVE-2024-3733 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.9.15. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 5.9.16; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2024, reported by Webbernaut.

Vulnerability Overview

The Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.15 via the ajax_load_more() , eael_woo_pagination_product_ajax(), and ajax_eael_product_gallery() functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract posts that may be in private or draft status.

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 privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

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

Essential Addons for Elementor <= 5.9.15 carries this weakness at ajax_load_more(), and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. 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 5.9.16: builds <= 5.9.15 are affected, anything from 5.9.16 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 5.9.16, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: Essential Addons for Elementor 5.9.16 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-2024-3733https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3d604f7a-947c-43f4-bba6-e7e98b2d7844https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3733

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