# CVE-2024-4274: Essential Real Estate <= 4.4.2 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Arbitrary Attachment Deletion

> Authenticated subscribers can delete arbitrary attachments due to insufficient validation in the Essential Real Estate WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L`)
- **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:** 4 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-7rrh-2q62-ppvc

## What is CVE-2024-4274?

CVE-2024-4274 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in g5theme Essential Real Estate, published on 4 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Essential Real Estate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to insufficient validation on the remove_property_attachment_ajax() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary attachments.

Weakness: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4274?

It affects 1 product.


Products: G5plus Essential Real Estate.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-4274?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4274 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-4274 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4274 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in g5theme Essential Real Estate

- [CVE-2023-6140](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6140/): Essential Real Estate < 4.4 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary File Upload (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2025-48126](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-48126/): WordPress Essential Real Estate plugin <= 5.2.9 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2025-30849](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-30849/): WordPress Essential Real Estate plugin <= 5.2.0 - Local File Inclusion Vulnerability (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2023-6827](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6827/): Essential Real Estate <= 4.3.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Upload (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2023-6139](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6139/): Essential Real Estate < 4.4.0 - Subscriber+ Denial of Service via Arbitrary Option Update (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-4274 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-4274 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in g5theme Essential Real Estate, published on 4 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-2024-4274 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: g5theme Essential Real Estate. 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-2024-4274/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4274/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4274
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4274
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-4274

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4274/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.