Easy Elements for Elementor – Addons & Website Templates: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
Easy Elements for Elementor – Addons & Website Templates is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess. The published affected range is <= 1.4.4.
- Component
- Easy Elements for Elementor – Addons & Website Templates
- Plugin slug
easy-elements- Affected
- <= 1.4.4
- Safe version
> 1.4.4- Published
- May 20, 2026
This CVE was published May 20, 2026 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Easy Elements for Elementor – Addons & Website Templates to a release after 1.4.4, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Easy Elements for Elementor – Addons & Website Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via user registration in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.4. This is due to the 'easyel_handle_register' function not restricting what user roles a user can register with. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to supply the 'administrator' role during registration and gain administrator access to the site.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H