King Addons for Elementor – Free Elements, Widgets, Templates, and Features for Elementor 24.12.92 - 51.1.14 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2025-8489
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published October 30, 2025
Last Updated November 24, 2025
Researcher Peter Thaleikis
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug king-addons (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 24.12.92 - 51.1.14
Patched Version
  • 51.1.35
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