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Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.8.7 — Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to 'page_id' Parameter via Elementor Revision

CVE-2026-118205Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤6.8.7Update to 6.8.8 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
High7.4
CVSS
7.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:H Attack complexity
High
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-269 Privilege Escalation
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.5% chance in 30 days41th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets essential-addons-for-elementor-lite

  1. Affected≤ 6.8.7
  2. Patched in6.8.8

Update to 6.8.8 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 6.8.7. Version 6.8.8 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

  1. Update to version 6.8.8, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. 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 crow.

The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 6.8.7 via the `page_id` parameter of the `register_user()` function. The vulnerability exists because the handler's post status deny-list rejects `future`, `draft`, and `pending` but admits `inherit` — the status carried by every WordPress revision — allowing an attacker to substitute a revision ID for a live page ID, while a flawed "last saved by administrator" check reads `post_author` on revisions (which reflects the editing administrator) rather than the `_edit_last` meta that is never copied to revisions, and the nonce gate is rendered ineffective because any unauthenticated visitor can freely obtain a valid nonce via the `wp_ajax_nopriv_eael_get_token` endpoint. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register an account with a role as high as Editor — gaining capabilities including `edit_others_posts`, `publish_pages`, `upload_files`, and `unfiltered_html` — by naming a revision whose `_elementor_data` contains an elevated role an administrator previously saved and later reverted on a page bearing the Login/Register widget. Successful exploitation requires that the site has "Anyone can register" enabled and that an administrator has at some point saved and then reverted a non-default "New User Role" on an affected page.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.36.8.7 - Authenticated (Author+) Privilege Escalation
6.6.0 – 6.8.7Update to 6.8.8
CVE-2026-110808
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Information Exposure
<6.8.7Update to 6.8.7
CVE-2026-110509
High7.36.8.6 - Unauthenticated Registration Approval Bypass
6.7.3 – 6.8.6Update to 6.8.7
CVE-2026-110508
Low2.7Missing Authorization
<6.8.7Update to 6.8.7
CVE-2026-110537
Medium6.4Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
<6.8.7Update to 6.8.7
CVE-2026-110510

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.4

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. 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.
EPSS
Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST.org.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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