Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder <= 4.1.6 - Authentication Bypass

Improper Authentication
CVE CVE-2021-24175
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published March 8, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Seravo
Description

The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder WordPress plugin before 4.1.7 was being actively exploited to by malicious actors to bypass authentication, allowing unauthenticated users to log in as any user (including admin) by just providing the related username, as well as create accounts with arbitrary roles, such as admin. These issues can be exploited even if registration is disabled, and the Login widget is not active.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug theplus_elementor_addon (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.1.7
Patched Version
  • 4.1.7
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