High severity · published Oct 16, 2024
CVE-2021-4447
Essential Addons for Elementor <= 4.6.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation
8.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EA
Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets · wpdevteam
through 4.6.4 · source: vendor
EA
Essential Addons For Elementor · Wpdeveloper
before 4.6.5 · source: NVD, CISA
Affected product
EA
Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
wpdevteam
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4447
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4447
Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2526471%40essential-addons-for-elementor-lite&new=2526471%40essential-addons-for-elementor-lite&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/be098ee9-b749-4908-85e8-e717d019609a?source=cve
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