Essential Addons for Elementor <= 4.6.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2021-4447
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published May 5, 2021
Last Updated October 16, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug essential-addons-for-elementor-lite (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.6.4
Patched Version
  • 4.6.5
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