Elementor Website Builder <= 2.7.4 - Arbitrary File Upload

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2020-7055
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published October 28, 2019
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Sam Thomas, Kyle Fleming
Description

The Elementor Website Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file upload by subscriber level users and above due to missing authorization on the Import Templates function, which makes it possible for attackers to gain remote code execution. This affects versions up to 2.7.5.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug elementor (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7.5
Patched Version
  • 2.7.5
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