CVE-2022-0320: Essential Addons for Elementor < 5.0.5 - Unauthenticated LFI

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-02-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 5.0.5 does not validate and sanitise some template data before it them in include statements, which could allow unauthenticated attackers to perform Local File Inclusion attack and read arbitrary files on the server, this could also lead to RCE via user uploaded files or other LFI to RCE techniques.

Affected products

wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets: before 5.0.5 — fixed in 5.0.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets 5.0.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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