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Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders, CVE-2021-4447

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2021-4447

Published on
Oct 16, 2024
Research 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.
Affected versions
Min -, max 4.6.5.
Status
vulnerable