CVE-2026-18039

Essential Addons for Elementor < 6.7.2 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Custom Profile Field Mass Assignment

The Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 6.7.2 does not prevent user-supplied registration fields from overwriting reserved account attributes, allowing unauthenticated attackers to register an account with an arbitrary role, including administrator, on sites where a custom profile field with a particular label has been configured.

Affected

Essential Addons for Elementor

CVSS v3.1 CNA

8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 31st percentile

Published

2026-08-14

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2982ee81-3a85-435b-8347-a7848e99f373/

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry