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CVE-2021-4447: Essential Addons for Elementor <= 4.6.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-10-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to and including 4.6.4 due to a lack of restrictions on who can add a registration form and a custom registration role to an Elementor created page. This makes it possible for attackers with access to the Elementor page builder to create a new registration form that defaults to the user role being set to administrator and subsequently register as an administrative user.

Affected products

• wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets: before 4.6.5 — fixed in 4.6.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets 4.6.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2526471%40essential-addons-for-elementor-lite&new=2526471%40essential-addons-for-elementor-lite&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/be098ee9-b749-4908-85e8-e717d019609a?source=cve

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