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
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Rafie Muhammad
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
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)