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Elementor Header & Footer Builder, CVE-2025-8488

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-8488

Published on
Aug 02, 2025
Research Description
The Ultimate Addons for Elementor (Formerly Elementor Header & Footer Builder) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the save_hfe_compatibility_option_callback ()function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the compatibility option setting.
Affected versions
Min -, max 2.4.7.
Status
vulnerable