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CVE-2022-0320 — Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets [essential-addons-for-elementor-lite] < 5.0.9

CVE Vulnerability Type Severity Affected Fixed in Published Status
CVE-2022-0320 Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets [essential-addons-for-elementor-lite] < 5.0.9 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') Critical 9.8 < 5.0.9 5.0.9 2022-01-21 —

CVE-2022-0320

The Essential Addons for Elementor plugin prior to version 5.0.5 fails to properly validate and sanitize template data used in include statements, enabling unauthenticated attackers to exploit local file inclusion vulnerabilities and access arbitrary files from the server. This flaw could potentially be leveraged to achieve remote code execution through user-uploaded files or other LFI-to-RCE methods.

Based on public CVE data (MITRE/NVD).

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