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CVE-2024-8801: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Happy Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin (versions up to 3.12.2) contains a Sensitive Information Exposure vulnerability in its Content Switcher widget. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on September 24, 2024, and affects all versions up to and including 3.12.2 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists in the Content Switcher widget component and allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to extract sensitive data including private, draft, and pending Elementor templates. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.3 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N (Wordfence).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers to access and extract sensitive information including private, draft, and pending Elementor templates that they should not normally have access to. This could lead to unauthorized disclosure of confidential content and design elements (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should update to version 3.12.3 or later which contains the fix for this vulnerability. The patch has been made available through the WordPress plugin repository (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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