Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 31, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-8489
CVE-2025-8489
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.
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Affected products
2- Range: >=24.12.92,<=51.1.14
- Range: >=24.12.92 && <=51.1.14
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/king-addons/tags/24.12.93/includes/widgets/Login_Register_Form/Login_Register_Form_Ajax.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/king-addons/tags/51.1.35/includes/widgets/Login_Register_Form/Login_Register_Form_Ajax.phpnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a1bb2b06-9a3b-4428-8624-26a1202fe3b0nvd
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