# CVE-2025-8489

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2025-8489
- **Severity:** CRITICAL
- **CVSS Score:** 9.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
- **CWE:** CWE-269
- **Published:** Oct 31, 2025
- **Last Modified:** Mar 12, 2026

## 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.

## Affected Products

- kingaddons — King Addons for Elementor – 4,000+ ready Elementor sections, 650+ templates, 70+ FREE widgets for Elementor (*)

## References

- [CNA](https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a1bb2b06-9a3b-4428-8624-26a1202fe3b0?source=cve)
- [CNA](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/king-addons/tags/24.12.93/includes/widgets/Login_Register_Form/Login_Register_Form_Ajax.php#L353)
- [CNA](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/king-addons/tags/51.1.35/includes/widgets/Login_Register_Form/Login_Register_Form_Ajax.php#L160)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 9.27%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 95.0

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-10._