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Dec 03 2025 Critical flaw in WordPress add-on for Elementor exploited in attacks

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Attackers are exploiting a critical-severity privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-8489) in the King Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress, which lets them obtain administrative permissions during the registration process. [...]

Posted by Bill Toulas on Wed 03 December 2025 in BleepingComputer.

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