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CVE-2024-6434 Premium Addons for Elementor <= 4.10.35 - Regular Expressions Denial of Service

Low 3.1 Published Updated

Authenticated attackers can cause server resource exhaustion via malicious post titles in Premium Addons for Elementor.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-6434?

CVE-2024-6434 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in leap13 Premium Addons for Elementor – Powerful Elementor Templates & Widgets, published on 4 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-1333, CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6434?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Leap13 Premium Addons for Elementor.

How do I fix CVE-2024-6434?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6434 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-6434 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6434 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-w963-c33v-9fmc.

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