THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2021-24175
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2021-24175

The Plus Addons For Elementor vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
14.5%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
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 vendor
Posimyth
Affected product
The Plus Addons For Elementor
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-287 — Improper Authentication
Published
2021-04-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 14.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-24175

  • Confirm whether Posimyth The Plus Addons For Elementor is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-24175.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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