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CVE-2026-18039: Essential Addons for Elementor < 6.7.2 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Custom Profile Field Mass Assignment
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-08-14 · updated 2026-08-26
- Weakness: CWE-269
Description
The Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 6.7.2 does not prevent user-supplied registration fields from overwriting reserved account attributes, allowing unauthenticated attackers to register an account with an arbitrary role, including administrator, on sites where a custom profile field with a particular label has been configured.
Affected products
- wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets: from 5.8.6 before 6.7.2 — fixed in 6.7.2
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets 6.7.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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