CVE-2025-8489

CRITICAL EXPLOITED

King Addons for Elementor - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

The King Addons for Elementor – Free Elements, Widgets, Templates, and Features for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions 24.12.92 to 51.1.14 . This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the roles that users can register with. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register with administrator-level user accounts.

Exploits (1)

metasploit WORKING POC EXCELLENT

by Peter Thaleikis, Valentin Lobstein <[email protected]> · rubypocphp

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/wp_king_addons_privilege_escalation.rb

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (3)

[Product] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/king-addons/tags/24.12.93/includes/widgets/Login_Register_Form/Login_Register_Form_Ajax.php#L353

[Product] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/king-addons/tags/51.1.35/includes/widgets/Login_Register_Form/Login_Register_Form_Ajax.php#L160

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a1bb2b06-9a3b-4428-8624-26a1202fe3b0?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.4430

EPSS Percentile 97.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation Intel

VulnCheck KEV 2025-10-31

Classification

CWE

CWE-269

Status draft

Timeline

Published Oct 31, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026