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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-9540
CVE-2024-9540:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Sina Extension for Elementor plugin for WordPress contains a Sensitive Information Exposure vulnerability (CVE-2024-9540) affecting all versions up to and including 3.5.7. The vulnerability exists in the render function within widgets/advanced/sina-modal-box.php (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to extract sensitive private, pending, and draft Elementor template data. The issue 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, indicating network accessibility with low attack complexity and required privileges (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability enables unauthorized access to sensitive template data, including private, pending, and draft Elementor templates, potentially exposing confidential information to authenticated users with Contributor-level access or higher (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
A patch has been released to address this vulnerability. Users should update their Sina Extension for Elementor plugin to a version newer than 3.5.7 (WordPress Patch).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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