Premium Addons for Elementor <= 4.10.35 - Regular Expressions Denial of Service

2024-07-03 00:00

Muhammad Umer Adeem (Yldrm)

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 4.10.36

Affected PluginPremium Addons for Elementor – Powerful Elementor Templates & Widgets

Affected Version<= 4.10.35

CVSS3.1Low

CVECVE-2024-6434

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Vulnerability Overview

The Premium Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in all versions up to, and including, 4.10.35. This is due to processing user-supplied input as a regular expression. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to create and query a malicious post title, resulting in slowing server resources.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 4.10.36, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6434 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3c59d95a-b7f1-4a04-bbf4-bab2c42d6d75

CVSS Vector

3.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityHigh
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityLow

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