Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Aug 2, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-8488

Description

The Ultimate Addons for Elementor (Formerly Elementor Header & Footer Builder) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the save_hfe_compatibility_option_callback ()function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the compatibility option setting.

Affected products

WordPress/Header Footer Elementorinferred2 versions
<=2.4.6+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=2.4.6
- (no CPE)range: <=2.4.6
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/header-footer-elementor

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/header-footer-elementor/tags/2.4.6/admin/class-hfe-addons-actions.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/header-footer-elementor/tags/2.4.7/admin/class-hfe-addons-actions.phpnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a4b847b5-9deb-41c4-b976-725249e0098envd

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