WordPress King Addons Flaw Under Active Attack Lets Hackers Make Admin Accounts

A critical security flaw impacting a WordPress plugin known as King Addons for Elementor has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-8489 CVSS score: 9.8, is a case of privilege escalation that allows unauthenticated attackers to grant themselves administrative...

Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in King Addons for Elementor Plugin

On July 24th, 2025, we received a submission for a Privilege Escalation vulnerability in King Addons for Elementor, a WordPress plugin with more than 10,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to grant themselves administrative privileges by...

CVE-2025-6325

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in KingAddons.com King Addons for Elementor king-addons allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects King Addons for Elementor: from n/a through = 51.1.36...

CVE-2025-6327

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in KingAddons.com King Addons for Elementor king-addons allows Upload a Web Shell to a Web Server.This issue affects King Addons for Elementor: from n/a through = 51.1.36...

EUVD-2025-38052

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in KingAddons.com King Addons for Elementor king-addons allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects King Addons for Elementor: from n/a through = 51.1.36...

EUVD-2025-38054

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in KingAddons.com King Addons for Elementor king-addons allows Upload a Web Shell to a Web Server.This issue affects King Addons for Elementor: from n/a through = 51.1.36...

CVE-2025-6325

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in KingAddons.com King Addons for Elementor king-addons allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects King Addons for Elementor: from n/a through = 51.1.36...

CVE-2025-6327

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in KingAddons.com King Addons for Elementor king-addons allows Upload a Web Shell to a Web Server.This issue affects King Addons for Elementor: from n/a through = 51.1.36...

CVE-2025-6327 WordPress King Addons for Elementor plugin <= 51.1.36 - Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in KingAddons.com King Addons for Elementor king-addons allows Upload a Web Shell to a Web Server.This issue affects King Addons for Elementor: from n/a through = 51.1.36...

CVE-2025-6327 WordPress King Addons for Elementor plugin <= 51.1.36 - Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in KingAddons.com King Addons for Elementor king-addons allows Upload a Web Shell to a Web Server.This issue affects King Addons for Elementor: from n/a through = 51.1.36...

CVE-2025-6327

The CVE-2025-6327 entry concerns the WordPress plugin King Addons for Elementor, versioned up to 51.1.36, which suffers an Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in king-addons. The flaw allows uploading a web shell to the web server via the plugin (arbitrary file upload vu...

CVE-2025-6325 WordPress King Addons for Elementor plugin <= 51.1.36 - Privilege Escalation vulnerability

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in KingAddons.com King Addons for Elementor king-addons allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects King Addons for Elementor: from n/a through = 51.1.36...

CVE-2025-6325 WordPress King Addons for Elementor plugin <= 51.1.36 - Privilege Escalation vulnerability

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in KingAddons.com King Addons for Elementor king-addons allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects King Addons for Elementor: from n/a through = 51.1.36...

CVE-2025-6325

CVE-2025-6325 affects WordPress King Addons for Elementor up to version 51.1.36. The underlying issue is an incorrect privilege assignment that enables privilege escalation within King Addons for Elementor. Multiple connected sources corroborate the vulnerable component and version range, describ...

WordPress plugin King Addons for Elementor 安全漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform has the ability to set up personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL based servers.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A security...

PT-2025-45329

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions King Addons for Elementor versions through 51.1.36 Description The software contains a flaw that permits the upload of files with dangerous types, potentially allowing the upload of a web shell to a web server. Recommendations Update King Addo...

PT-2025-45328

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions King Addons for Elementor versions through 51.1.36 Description An incorrect privilege assignment exists in King Addons for Elementor, allowing for privilege escalation. The issue allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges within the system...

WordPress plugin King Addons for Elementor 安全漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform has the ability to set up personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL based servers.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A security...

WordPress King Addons for Elementor plugin elevation of privilege vulnerability

WordPress King Addons for Elementor plugin is an extension plugin designed specifically for the Elementor page builder, offering a large number of preset templates, components, and features for quickly building WordPress websites. The WordPress King Addons for Elementor plugin suffers from an...

CVE-2025-8489

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...