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CVE-2026-118205EUVD-2026-114227GHSA-PVRF-6WRJ-9XXG

Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.8.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to 'page_id' Parameter via Elementor Revision

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  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

The Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is affected. An unauthenticated attacker could potentially register an account with an elevated role, up to Editor, and gain permissions to edit others' posts, publish pages, upload files, and add unfiltered HTML.

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The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 6.8.7 via the `page_id` parameter of the `register_user()` function. The vulnerability exists because the handler's post status deny-list rejects `future`, `draft`, and `pending` but admits `inherit` — the status carried by every WordPress revision — allowing an attacker to substitute a revision ID for a live page ID, while a flawed "last saved by administrator" check reads `post_author` on revisions (which reflects the editing administrator) rather than the `_edit_last` meta that is never copied to revisions, and the nonce gate is rendered ineffective because any unauthenticated visitor can freely obtain a valid nonce via the `wp_ajax_nopriv_eael_get_token` endpoint. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register an account with a role as high as Editor — gaining capabilities including `edit_others_posts`, `publish_pages`, `upload_files`, and `unfiltered_html` — by naming a revision whose `_elementor_data` contains an elevated role an administrator previously saved and later reverted on a page bearing the Login/Register widget. Successful exploitation requires that the site has "Anyone can register" enabled and that an administrator has at some point saved and then reverted a non-default "New User Role" on an affected page.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets

    through 6.8.7

References 8

wordfence.com

plugins.trac.wordpress.org