Essential Addons for Elementor <= 5.7.1 — Unauthenticated Arbitrary Password Reset to Privilege Escalation
CVE-2023-32243Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.7.1Update to 5.7.2 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets essential-addons-for-elementor-lite
- Affected≤ 5.7.1
- Patched in5.7.2
Update to 5.7.2 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.7.1. Version 5.7.2 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 5.7.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Rafie Muhammad.
The Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Password Resets to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 5.7.1. This is due to a lack of validation of a password reset key in the reset_password function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset the password of any user on a vulnerable site, including an administrator, if they have the email or username of the targeted account.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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All 76| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.4 | Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to 'page_id' Parameter via Elementor Revision ≤6.8.7Update to 6.8.8 | CVE-2026-118205 | |
| Medium6.3 | 6.8.7 - Authenticated (Author+) Privilege Escalation 6.6.0 – 6.8.7Update to 6.8.8 | CVE-2026-110808 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Information Exposure <6.8.7Update to 6.8.7 | CVE-2026-110509 | |
| High7.3 | 6.8.6 - Unauthenticated Registration Approval Bypass 6.7.3 – 6.8.6Update to 6.8.7 | CVE-2026-110508 | |
| Low2.7 | Missing Authorization <6.8.7Update to 6.8.7 | CVE-2026-110537 |
- High7.4Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to 'page_id' Parameter via Elementor Revision
≤6.8.7Update to 6.8.8
- Medium6.36.8.7 - Authenticated (Author+) Privilege Escalation
6.6.0 – 6.8.7Update to 6.8.8
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Information Exposure
<6.8.7Update to 6.8.7
- High7.36.8.6 - Unauthenticated Registration Approval Bypass
6.7.3 – 6.8.6Update to 6.8.7
- Low2.7Missing Authorization
<6.8.7Update to 6.8.7
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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