WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2026-8825 Deferred

Elementor Website Builder: A security weakness

Elementor Website Builder is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least contributor-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation. The published affected range is < 4.1.4.

CVE / CNA score 4.9 CVSS 3.1 · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Elementor Website Builder
Plugin slug
elementor-website-builder
Affected
< 4.1.4
Safe version
4.1.4
Published
Jul 20, 2026
Weakness
CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

This CVE was published Jul 20, 2026 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Patch or disable the affected component.

Update Elementor Website Builder to 4.1.4 or later, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

Source record

Technical description

The Elementor Website Builder WordPress plugin before 4.1.4 does not properly check user permissions before returning post data through one of its REST endpoints, allowing authenticated users with Contributor-level access and above to retrieve the title, body and metadata of private posts, private pages and drafts authored by other users (including administrators).

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources