VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-24175

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 14.5%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 14.5%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder WordPress plugin before 4.1.7 was being actively exploited to by malicious actors to bypass authentication, allowing unauthenticated users to log in as any user (including admin) by just providing the related username, as well as create accounts with arbitrary roles, such as admin. These issues can be exploited even if registration is disabled, and the Login widget is not active.

CVSS 3.1: 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 14.46% probability · 97th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-287
Affected: posimyth/the plus addons for elementor
Source: contact@wpscan.com

EPSS trend

EPSS 14.5% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

https://posimyth.ticksy.com/ticket/2713734/Broken Link
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c311feef-7041-4c21-9525-132b9bd32f89Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/03/critical-0-day-in-the-plus-addons-for-elementor-allows-site-takeover/Third Party Advisory
https://posimyth.ticksy.com/ticket/2713734/Broken Link
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c311feef-7041-4c21-9525-132b9bd32f89Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/03/critical-0-day-in-the-plus-addons-for-elementor-allows-site-takeover/Third Party Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.