CVE-2025-8489King Addons for Elementor – Free Elements, Widgets, Templates, and Features for Elementor 24.12.92 - 51.1.14 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 9.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- WordPress King Addons for Elementor Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to RCE (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/http/wp_king_addons_privilege_escalationRank excellentdisclosed 30 Oct 2025
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 31 days later
· 31 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.6% · top 4.4% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
References
References3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a1bb2b06-9a3b-4428-8624-26a1202fe3b0?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/king-addons/tags/24.12.93/includes/widgets/Login_Register_Form/Login_Register_Form_Ajax.php#L353 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/king-addons/tags/51.1.35/includes/widgets/Login_Register_Form/Login_Register_Form_Ajax.php#L160 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-37306 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-8489)Record last updated .