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

Published Aug 2, 2025

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 products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-862

Missing Authorization

References (3)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Wordfence
Published Aug 2, 2025
Updated Apr 8, 2026
Reserved Aug 1, 2025
Link CVE-2025-8488
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Aug 4, 2025
NVD
Status Deferred
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2025-8488
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2025-8488