{"id":"CVE-2025-8489","title":"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 ","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…","severity":"critical","cvss":9.8,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","cwe":["CWE-269"],"published":"2025-10-31","updated":"2026-10-07","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-07T21:10:00.200","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8489","references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/king-addons/tags/24.12.93/includes/widgets/Login_Register_Form/Login_Register_Form_Ajax.php#L353","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/king-addons/tags/51.1.35/includes/widgets/Login_Register_Form/Login_Register_Form_Ajax.php#L160","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a1bb2b06-9a3b-4428-8624-26a1202fe3b0?source=cve","label":"security@wordfence.com"}],"tags":["nvd","exploit-available"],"epss":0.09606,"epssPercentile":0.95365,"exploits":{"metasploit":["exploit/multi/http/wp_king_addons_privilege_escalation"],"checkedAt":"2026-10-07T21:54:50.405Z"},"exploitAvailable":true,"ingestedAt":"2026-10-07T21:54:14.913Z","slug":"CVE-2025-8489","body":"## Overview\n\nThe 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"abyssal","depthScore":68,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":53.9,"likelihood":1.9,"exploitation":12,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}