{"cve":"CVE-2025-8489","nvd":{"published":"2025-10-31T07:15:38.693","modified":"2026-10-07T21:10:00.200","status":"Deferred","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":9.8},"cwes":["CWE-269"],"references":["https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/king-addons/tags/24.12.93/includes/widgets/Login_Register_Form/Login_Register_Form_Ajax.php#L353","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/king-addons/tags/51.1.35/includes/widgets/Login_Register_Form/Login_Register_Form_Ajax.php#L160","https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a1bb2b06-9a3b-4428-8624-26a1202fe3b0?source=cve"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:14:53.307938015+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-8489","score":0.09606,"percentile":0.95444,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}