Disclosure 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.
Source-reported weakness categories
CWE-269
Source-specific records & product guidance
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NIST National Vulnerability Database · NVD-CVE-2025-8489
Open original source · Updated Oct 07, 2026
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Original records & references
- NIST NVD record
- CVE Program record
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- www.wordfence.com
PUBLISHED 2025-10-31T03:15:38-04:00
MODIFIED 2026-10-07T17:10:00-04:00
INGESTED 2026-10-08T12:35:14-04:00