CVE-2026-18039

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Assigned by CNA: wpscan

Published 2026-08-14 · Modified 2026-08-14

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 6.7.2 does not prevent user-supplied registration fields from overwriting reserved account attributes, allowing unauthenticated attackers to register an account with an arbitrary role, including administrator, on sites where a custom profile field with a particular label has been configured.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2982ee81-3a85-435b-8347-a7848e99f373/

CWEs

CWE-269

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.