CVE-2025-8488 Information

Aug 03, 2025 cve

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

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

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

4.3

CNNVD-202508-138 (Published: 2025-08-02)

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