CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-24359

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2021-06-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-06-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-284, CWE-287

Description

The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder WordPress plugin before 4.1.11 did not properly check that a user requesting a password reset was the legitimate user, allowing an attacker to send an arbitrary reset password email to a registered user on behalf of the WordPress site. Such issue could be chained with an open redirect (CVE-2021-24358) in version below 4.1.10, to include a crafted password reset link in the email, which would lead to an account takeover.

Affected configurations

• posimyth the plus addons for elementor (< 4.1.11)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References