Critical flaw in WordPress add-on for Elementor exploited in attacks
Attackers are exploiting a critical-severity privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-8489) in the King Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress, which lets them obtain administrative permissions during the registration process. [...]
Attackers are exploiting a critical-severity privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025–8489) in the King Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress, which lets them obtain administrative permissions during the registration process.
The threat activity started on October 31, just a day after the issue was publicly disclosed. So far, the Wordfence security scanner from Defiant, a company that provides security services for WordPress websites, has blocked more than 48,400 exploit attempts.
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