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CVE-2024-4274: Essential Real Estate <= 4.4.2 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Arbitrary Attachment Deletion

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2024-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-639

Description

The Essential Real Estate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to insufficient validation on the remove_property_attachment_ajax() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary attachments.

Affected products

• g5theme Essential Real Estate: before 4.4.5 — fixed in 4.4.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: g5theme Essential Real Estate 4.4.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-real-estate/trunk/public/partials/property/class-ere-property.php#L28
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3106467%40essential-real-estate&new=3106467%40essential-real-estate&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3110238%40essential-real-estate&new=3110238%40essential-real-estate&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7dc41eb7-5c9a-4a67-902d-9a855840668b?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-real-estate/trunk/public/partials/property/class-ere-property.php#L28
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7dc41eb7-5c9a-4a67-902d-9a855840668b?source=cve

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