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Paper/Archive/CVE-2021-24175

CVE-2021-24175

Unknown The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder — The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder < 4.1.7 - Authentication Bypass

EPSS 14%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
49
CVSS 9.8 (NVD)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 96.6.966 × 2019.3No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: unknown+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder WordPress plugin before 4.1.7 was being actively exploited to by malicious actors to bypass authentication, allowing unauthenticated users to log in as any user (including admin) by just providing the related username, as well as create accounts with arbitrary roles, such as admin. These issues can be exploited even if registration is disabled, and the Login widget is not active.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder4.1.7 – < 4.1.74.1.7CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

refwpscan.com/vulnerability/c311feef-7041-4c21-9525-132b9bd32f89refwordfence.com/blog/2021/03/critical-0-day-in-the-plus-addons-for-elementor-allows-site-takeoverrefposimyth.ticksy.com/ticket/2713734