CVE-2025-8488 (GCVE-0-2025-8488)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-02 09:23 – Updated: 2025-08-04 13:27
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
brainstormforce Ultimate Addons for Elementor (Formerly Elementor Header & Footer Builder) Affected: * , ≤ 2.4.6 (semver)
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Credits
Peter Thaleikis
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