CVE-2026-5486
Unlimited Elements For Elementor <= 2.0.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via 'filter_search' Parameter
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.49%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 57% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Unlimited Elements for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'data[filter_search]' parameter in the get_cat_addons AJAX action in versions up to and including 2.0.7. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and the use of deprecated escaping functions combined with direct string concatenation in SQL query construction. The vulnerability is exacerbated because the normalizeAjaxInputData() function calls stripslashes() on all user input, removing the protection provided by WordPress's wp_magic_quotes() function. Subsequently, the filter_search parameter is escaped using the deprecated wpdb->_escape() function and then directly concatenated into a LIKE clause without using prepared statements. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above (who can obtain a valid nonce through the Elementor editor), to inject arbitrary SQL commands and extract sensitive information from the database.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Published
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 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.49% · top 57% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
unitecms · Unlimited Elements For Elementor
- affected ≤ 2.0.7
References
References10
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b495914d-d8f2-4592-8461-1ae1056a0855?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/unlimited-elements-for-elementor/trunk/inc_php/unitecreator_addons.class.php#L188 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/unlimited-elements-for-elementor/trunk/inc_php/unitecreator_addons.class.php#L229 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/unlimited-elements-for-elementor/tags/2.0.6/inc_php/unitecreator_addons.class.php#L229 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/unlimited-elements-for-elementor/trunk/inc_php/unitecreator_actions.class.php#L132 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/unlimited-elements-for-elementor/tags/2.0.6/inc_php/unitecreator_actions.class.php#L132 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/unlimited-elements-for-elementor/trunk/provider/provider_functions.class.php#L482 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/unlimited-elements-for-elementor/tags/2.0.6/provider/provider_functions.class.php#L482 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/unlimited-elements-for-elementor/trunk/provider/provider_db.class.php#L82-L84 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3513863%40unlimited-elements-for-elementor&new=3513863%40unlimited-elements-for-elementor&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (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-2026-30214 (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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