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Elementor Pro <= 4.2.1 — Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via Upload Field Array Validation Bypass

CVE-2026-32475Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤4.2.1Update to 4.2.2 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-434 Arbitrary File Upload
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Elementor Website Builder Pro elementor-pro

  1. Affected≤ 4.2.1
  2. Patched in4.2.2

Update to 4.2.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 4.2.1. Version 4.2.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Elementor Website Builder Pro.
  • 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 4.2.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Elementor Website Builder Pro to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Tin Pham (TF1T), Austin Ginder.

The Elementor Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Unrestricted File Type Upload in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.1 via the process_field function. This is due to a validation loop in Upload::validation() using 'return' instead of 'continue' when the first array element has UPLOAD_ERR_NO_FILE, aborting all extension and file type checks for remaining files in the same upload field. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload files that may be executable, which makes remote code execution possible. This requires that the targeted site has published a page containing an Elementor Pro Form widget with at least one non-required File Upload field.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Elementor Website Builder Pro

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Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤3.29.0Update to 3.29.1
CVE-2025-3076
Medium4.3Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure via Shortcode
≤3.25.10Update to 3.25.11
CVE-2024-8494
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤3.21.2Update to 3.21.3
CVE-2024-35656
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤3.21.0Update to 3.21.2
CVE-2024-4107

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

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

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