Animation Addons for Elementor Pro <= 1.6 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Installation/Activation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-1639
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published March 3, 2025
Last Updated March 4, 2025
Researcher Tonn
Description

The Animation Addons for Elementor Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the install_elementor_plugin_handler() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install and activate arbitrary plugins which can be leveraged to further infect a victim when Elementor is not activated on a vulnerable site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug animation-addons-for-elementor-pro (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6
Patched Version
  • 1.7
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