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CVE-2021-4447

Oct. 16, 2024, 4:38 p.m.

CVSS Score

8.8 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

Essential Addons for Elementor plugin

  • up to 4.6.4

Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to and including 4.6.4 due to a lack of restrictions on who can add a registration form and a custom registration role to an Elementor created page. This makes it possible for attackers with access to the Elementor page builder to create a new registration form that defaults to the user role being set to administrator and subsequently register as an administrative user.

Weaknesses

CWE-862
Missing Authorization

The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

CWE ID: 862

Date

Published: Oct. 16, 2024, 7:15 a.m.

Last Modified: Oct. 16, 2024, 4:38 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@wordfence.com

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score
8.8
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
Base Severity
HIGH
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References


https://www.wordfence.com/ security@wordfence.com