CVE-2024-13421 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2024-13421

Real Estate 7 WordPress <= 3.5.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Administrator

Vulnerability Description

The Real Estate 7 WordPress theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.1. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the roles allowed to be selected during registration. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register a new administrative user account.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Lucio Sá

References

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Affected Vendor

contempoinc

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Affected Software

Real Estate 7 WordPress
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: February 12th, 2025
Last Modified: April 8th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-266

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1078 Valid Accounts
Persistence
T1098 Account Manipulation
Privilege Escalation
T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
Privilege Escalation
T1484 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification
Defense Evasion
T1021 Remote Services
Lateral Movement