# CVE-2024-3668: PowerPack Pro for Elementor <= 2.10.17 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation

> Authenticated contributors can escalate privileges to administrator by setting a default admin role in registration forms.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-236g-v823-mwh3

## What is CVE-2024-3668?

CVE-2024-3668 is a high-severity vulnerability in PowerPack Pro for Elementor, published on 8 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The PowerPack Pro for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.17. This is due to the plugin not restricting low privileged users from setting a default role for a registration form. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to create a registration form with administrator set as the default role and then register as an administrator.

Weakness: CWE-732 (Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3668?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ideabox Powerpack Addons for Elementor.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-3668?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-3668 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-3668 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3668 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in PowerPack Pro for Elementor

- [CVE-2023-49739](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-49739/): WordPress PowerPack Pro for Elementor plugin <= 2.9.23 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2024-5787](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5787/): Cross-site scripting in PowerPack Addons for Elementor (Free Widgets, Extensions and Templates) (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-5327](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5327/): Cross-site scripting in PowerPack Addons for Elementor (Free Widgets, Extensions and Templates) (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-2492](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2492/): Cross-site scripting in PowerPack Addons for Elementor (Free Widgets, Extensions and Templates) (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-2491](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2491/): PowerPack Addons for Elementor <= 2.7.17 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via *_html_tag* (medium 6.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-3668 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-3668 is a high-severity vulnerability in PowerPack Pro for Elementor, published on 8 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3668 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: PowerPack Pro for Elementor. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3668/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3668/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3668
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3668
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-3668

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3668/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.