CVE Alert: CVE-2025-8488
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-8488
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 Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
8/2/2025, 10:15:27 AM
⚠️ CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedEPS Score: 0.00025 | Ranking EPS: 0.05173
References:
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/header-footer-elementor/tags/2.4.6/admin/class-hfe-addons-actions.php#L494
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/header-footer-elementor/tags/2.4.7/admin/class-hfe-addons-actions.php#L525
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a4b847b5-9deb-41c4-b976-725249e0098e?source=cve
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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