CVE-2024-8979 Information disclosure in Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Authenticated attackers can extract sensitive user credentials via email notifications, potentially leading to privilege escalation in WordPress installations using this plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-8979?
CVE-2024-8979 is a high-severity vulnerability in Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor, published on 15 Nov 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8979?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor.
How do I fix CVE-2024-8979?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8979 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-8979 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8979 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor
- CVE-2023-32243 WordPress Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin 5.4.0-5.7.1 is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation
- CVE-2022-0320 Essential Addons for Elementor < 5.0.5 - Unauthenticated LFI
- CVE-2021-4447 Essential Addons for Elementor <= 4.6.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation
- CVE-2023-41955 WordPress Essential Addons for Elementor plugin <= 5.8.8 - Contributor+ Privilege Escalation vulnerability
- CVE-2024-3018 Essential Addons for Elementor <= 5.9.13 - Authenticated (Author+) PHP Object Injection via error_resetpassword
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-45w9-22fh-qrx4.