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CVE-2024-24934: WordPress Elementor plugin <= 3.19.0 - Arbitrary File Deletion and Phar Deserialization vulnerability

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 32/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.71% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 53.7% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Elementor Elementor Website Builder 3.19.1.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Elementor Elementor Website Builder 3.19.1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Elementor Elementor Website Builder allows Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls.This issue affects Elementor Website Builder: from n/a through 3.19.0.

HighCVSS 8.1 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Published: May 17, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.7% · 53th percentile
CWE: CWE-22

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 32 / 40 · 8.1 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.7%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 8.1
CNA · Patchstack: 8.5; 0.4 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
elementor	website builder	cpe:2.3:a:elementor:website_builder

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

elementor website builderbefore 3.19.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Patchstack). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Elementor Elementor Website Builder
- n/a and later · up to and including 3.19.0affectedfixed in 3.19.1

Same product

elementor: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2022-1329Elementor Website Builder 3.6.0 - 3.6.2 - Missing Authorization to Remote Code Execution
63This week
CVE-2020-7109The Elementor Page Builder plugin before 2.8.4 for WordPress does not sanitize data during creation of a new template.
40Plan
CVE-2023-47504WordPress Elementor plugin <= 3.16.4 - Auth. Arbitrary Attachment Read vulnerability
39Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-2117Apr 9, 2024 · Elementor Website Builder – More than Just a Page Builder <= 3.20.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Path Widget
21Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-4107May 14, 2024 · Elementor Website Builder Pro <= 3.21.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting
21Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-4619May 21, 2024 · Elementor Website Builder – More than Just a Page Builder <= 3.21.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting
21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Elementor Elementor Website Builder	3.19.1	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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Rhynorater (Justin Gardner)finder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2025-8081452 days apartElementor <= 3.30.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Arbitrary File Read via Image Import
19Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

CVE-2023-4750423 days apartWordPress Elementor plugin <= 3.16.4 - Auth. Arbitrary Attachment Read vulnerability
39Monitor

Bug bounty scope

Elementor: Bug Bounty ProgramBugcrowd · paid · up to $4,000

The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-24-0505 · May 20, 2024(WordPress Eklenti Güvenlik Bildirimi)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: none
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

A user-supplied file name is joined with the allowed directory, but the result is never checked to confirm it is still inside that directory.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-22 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1const file = path.join(ROOT, req.query.name);
2res.sendFile(file);

Fixed

1const file = path.resolve(ROOT, req.query.name);
2if (!file.startsWith(ROOT + path.sep)) {
3  return res.sendStatus(400);
4}
5res.sendFile(file);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

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References

patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/elementor/wordpress-elementor-plugin-3-19-0-arbitrary-file-deletion-and-phar-deserialization-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

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