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CVE-2024-2974: Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders <= 5.9.13 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-04-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 5.9.13 via the load_more function. This can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including private and draft posts.

Affected products

• wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets: before 5.9.14 — fixed in 5.9.14

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets 5.9.14. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3060417/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/5.9.14/includes/Traits/Ajax_Handler.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/78f96d7f-aeca-4959-9573-0fb6402de007?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3060417/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/5.9.14/includes/Traits/Ajax_Handler.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/78f96d7f-aeca-4959-9573-0fb6402de007?source=cve

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