CVE-2026-18039
HighCVSS 8.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk20th percentile - higher than 20% of all known CVEs
Summary
The Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before version 6.7.2 does not prevent user-supplied registration fields from overwriting reserved account attributes, allowing unauthenticated attackers to register an account with an arbitrary role, including administrator, on sites where a custom profile field with a particular label has been configured.
Risk Assessment
An unauthenticated attacker can obtain an administrator account, leading to full compromise of the WordPress site. This can result in data theft, defacement, or use of the server for further attacks.
Recommendation
Update the Essential Addons for Elementor plugin to version 6.7.2 or later. Check for existing accounts with unexpected roles and remove them.
Other vulnerabilities in Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin
See all- CVE-2026-110537Unknown
The Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 6.8.7 does not verify that an administrator may manage the specific user accounts targeted by its login-approval feature, checking only a site-level capability. On WordPress Multisite this could allow a subsite administrator to change the approval and login state of accounts belonging to other sites on the network.
- CVE-2026-110510Unknown
The Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 6.8.7 does not validate the HTML tag setting of some of its widgets before using it to build markup. This could allow users with the author role and above to inject iframe and form elements into published pages.
Original NVD description (English source)
The Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 6.7.2 does not prevent user-supplied registration fields from overwriting reserved account attributes, allowing unauthenticated attackers to register an account with an arbitrary role, including administrator, on sites where a custom profile field with a particular label has been configured.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS