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CVE-2023-4689: Elementor Addon Elements <= 1.12.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2023-11-15 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-352
Description
The Elementor Addon Elements plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.12.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the eae_save_elements function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to enable/disable elementor addon elements via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected products
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/addon-elements-for-elementor-page-builder/trunk/inc/admin/admin-ui.php#L46
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2996185%40addon-elements-for-elementor-page-builder%2Ftrunk&old=2980987%40addon-elements-for-elementor-page-builder%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file15
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/472cdbc4-3bfa-4254-b35a-be7ae10782e6?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/addon-elements-for-elementor-page-builder/trunk/inc/admin/admin-ui.php#L46
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2996185%40addon-elements-for-elementor-page-builder%2Ftrunk&old=2980987%40addon-elements-for-elementor-page-builder%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file15
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/472cdbc4-3bfa-4254-b35a-be7ae10782e6?source=cve
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