CVE-2024-8979

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 8.0 High

Status

Analyzed - security@wordfence.com

Published

2024-11-15

Last modified

2026-04-08

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

• Essential Addons For Elementor (Wpdeveloper)
• Essential Addons For Elementor Popular Elementor Templates Widgets (Wpdevteam)

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/trunk/includes/Elements/Login_Register.p…
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3188634/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/34d09086-be33-40cf-b5bf-d6c03cf0b68a?source=cve