CVE-2025-8489 (GCVE-0-2025-8489)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-31 06:42
Modified
2025-10-31 06:42
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
The King Addons for Elementor – Free Elements, Widgets, Templates, and Features for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions 24.12.92 to 51.1.14 . This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the roles that users can register with. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register with administrator-level user accounts.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
kingaddons King Addons for Elementor – 4,000+ ready Elementor sections, 650+ templates, 70+ FREE widgets for Elementor Version: *   ≤ 51.1.14
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