High severity8.0NVD Advisory· Published Nov 15, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-8979
CVE-2024-8979
Description
The Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Addon, Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.9 via the 'init_content_lostpassword_user_email_controls' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including usernames and passwords of any user, including Administrators, as long as that user opens the email notification for a password change request and images are not blocked by the email client.
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Affected products
4- cpe:2.3:a:wpdeveloper:essential_addons_for_elementor:*:*:*:*:lite:wordpress:*:*Range: <6.0.10
- Range: <=6.0.9
- wpdevteam/Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgetsv5Range: 0
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