Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-37091

CriticalRCE

Published: 24 June 2024

Published
24 June 2024
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0636 91.2th percentile
Risk Priority 24 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-37091 is a critical-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Stylemixthemes Consulting Elementor Widgets. Its CVSS base score is 9.9 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 8.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

CVE-2024-37091 is a command injection vulnerability (CWE-77/CWE-78) affecting two WordPress plugins developed by StylemixThemes: Consulting Elementor Widgets (versions through 1.3.0) and Masterstudy Elementor Widgets (versions through 1.2.2). The flaw stems from improper neutralization of special elements in commands, enabling OS command injection with a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.9.

An authenticated attacker with low-privileged network access can exploit the issue without user interaction to execute arbitrary operating system commands. Successful exploitation yields full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact on the affected component, with a scope change that can extend to the broader hosting environment.

Advisories published by Patchstack identify the issues as remote code execution flaws and direct users to apply the vendor-supplied updates that remediate the affected plugin versions. The associated EPSS scores have remained low, with a current value of 0.0636 and a modest peak of 0.0811.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection') vulnerability in StylemixThemes Consulting Elementor Widgets, StylemixThemes Masterstudy Elementor Widgets allows OS Command Injection.This issue affects Consulting Elementor Widgets: from n/a through 1.3.0; Masterstudy Elementor Widgets: from n/a through…

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CWE(s)
CWE-77CWE-78

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

stylemixthemes
consulting elementor widgets
≤ 1.3.1

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

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