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CVE-2024-13421: Real Estate 7 WordPress <= 3.5.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Administrator

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-02-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-266

Description

The Real Estate 7 WordPress theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.1. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the roles allowed to be selected during registration. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register a new administrative user account.

Affected products

• Contempoinc Real Estate 7: before 3.5.2 — fixed in 3.5.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Contempoinc Real Estate 7 3.5.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://contempothemes.com/changelog/
• https://themeforest.net/item/wp-pro-real-estate-7-responsive-real-estate-wordpress-theme/12473778
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a50b3304-d55b-487a-8137-d5083c704cf4?source=cve

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