CVE-2025-8488

Ultimate Addons for Elementor (Formerly Elementor Header & Footer Builder) <= 2.4.6 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Settings Update

mediumMissing Authorization

4.3

CVSS Score

4.3

CVSS Score

medium

Severity

2.4.7

Patched in

Time to patch

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

None

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=2.4.6

PublishedAugust 1, 2025

Last updatedAugust 2, 2025

Affected pluginheader-footer-elementor

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a4b847b5-9deb-41c4-b976-725249e0098e?source=api-prod

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