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
wpdevteam · Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Affected: wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 45% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- wpdevteam · Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgetsup to and including 6.0.9
On the Atlas
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- wpdevteam
- Published
- November 2024
CoverageNo articles yet
No CyberSIXT article names CVE-2024-8979 yet, so there is no coverage timeline, action brief or change log for it. Everything on this page comes from the public CVE record, CISA KEV, EPSS and the nuclei template index. Search the archive or see the CVEs in the news.
References
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CVE recordcve.org
- Weakness CWE-200cwe.mitre.org
- wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/34d09086-be33-40cfwordfence.com
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementoplugins.trac.wordpress.org
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3188634plugins.trac.wordpress.org