WordPress security changelog
CRITICAL CVE-2025-8489 Deferred

King Addons for Elementor – Free Elements, Widgets, Templates, and Features for Elementor: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass

King Addons for Elementor – Free Elements, Widgets, Templates, and Features for Elementor 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.

CVE / CNA score 9.8 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
King Addons for Elementor – Free Elements, Widgets, Templates, and Features for Elementor
Plugin slug
king-addons
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Oct 31, 2025
Weakness
CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

This CVE was published Oct 31, 2025 and is one of 11 known issues for this plugin.

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update King Addons for Elementor – Free Elements, Widgets, Templates, and Features for Elementor to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.

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 King Addons for Elementor – Free Elements, Widgets, Templates, and Features for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions 24.12.92 to 51.1.14 . This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the roles that users can register with. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register with administrator-level user accounts.

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

Primary and upstream sources