Layouts for Elementor <= 1.7 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.8
- Affected Plugin
- Layouts for Elementor
- Affected Version
<= 1.7- CVSS
- 10.0Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2024-30533
At a glance
CVE-2024-30533 is a critical-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Layouts for Elementor WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.7. It carries a CVSS score of 10.0 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2024, reported by Abdi Pranata.
Vulnerability Overview
The Layouts for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to a missing capability check on the handle_import() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files that can be used to achieve remote code execution.
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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Layouts for Elementor <= 1.7 carries this weakness at handle_import(), and reaching it takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Layouts for Elementor the fix is 1.8: builds <= 1.7 are affected, anything from 1.8 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.8, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Layouts for Elementor 1.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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