---
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'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.