CVE-2024-8979

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2024-8979

Assigner
Wordfence

Vulnerability Status
PUBLISHED

Published Version
2024-11-15T09:29:39.230Z

Last Modified Date
2024-11-15T17:52:51.817Z

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-200	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/200.html

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/34d09086-be33-40cf-b5bf-d6c03cf0b68a?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/trunk/includes/Elements/Login_Register.php#L2440
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3188634/

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8979
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-8979

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2024-11-16 13:15:12				Added to TrackCVE