CVE-2024-8979: The Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Addon, Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive…

PriorityP430medium5.7CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUIRSUCHINAN

EPSS

0.49%

38.6th percentile

The Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Addon, Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.9 via the 'init_content_lostpassword_user_email_controls' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including usernames and passwords of any user, including Administrators, as long as that user opens the email notification for a password change request and images are not blocked by the email client.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
wpdeveloper	essential_addons_for_elementor	< 6.0.10	6.0.10
wpdevteam	essential_addons_for_elementor_popular_elementor_templates_widgets	<= 6.0.9	—

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