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Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.7.1 — Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

CVE-2026-18039Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤6.7.1Update to 6.7.2 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
High7.3
CVSS
7.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:L Availability
Low
Weakness
CWE-269 Privilege Escalation
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

  1. Affected≤ 6.7.1
  2. Patched in6.7.2

Update to 6.7.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 6.7.1. Version 6.7.2 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

  1. Update to version 6.7.2, 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 Jakub Herman.

The Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 6.7.1. This is due to missing validation against reserved wp_insert_user() data keys (such as 'role') when building the custom profile fields array, allowing user-controlled field labels to overwrite core user properties via mass assignment. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as a new user with an arbitrary role, including administrator, by submitting a custom profile field whose label slugifies to 'role' (or another reserved wp_insert_user key), causing the value to be passed directly to wp_insert_user().

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets

All 76
More vulnerabilities in Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.4Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to 'page_id' Parameter via Elementor Revision
≤6.8.7Update to 6.8.8
CVE-2026-118205
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

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.3

  2. 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.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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