WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Essential Addons for Elementor < 5.8.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation

Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to and including 5.8.8 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. Note that this is difficult to exploit without publishing capabilities and appears to be a regression, as an identical issue was patched in version 4.6.5.

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Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Rafie Muhammad
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-09-14 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-11-24 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-12-13 (about 2 years ago)

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