CVE-2024-8979 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.0