CVE-2026-110508: Essential Addons for Elementor missing authorization check vulnerability

medium 5.3 published 2026-10-28

Affected versions: 6.7.3 up to (not including) 6.8.7
Fixed in: 6.8.7
Latest version: 6.8.8
Severity: Medium · CVSS 5.3
Active installs: 1+ million
Type: Missing authorization check

What an attacker needs

Access: None. No account or login is needed.

CVSS vector (score by WPScan): CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

What to do now

Update Essential Addons for Elementor to 6.8.7 or newer (the latest is 6.8.8): Dashboard → Updates, or Plugins → “update now”.
If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can.
Turn on auto-updates for it: Plugins → “Enable auto-updates” on its row.
Not sure which version you run? Check your version against every known Essential Addons for Elementor issue. With WP-CLI: wp plugin get essential-addons-for-elementor-lite --field=version.
If you ran an affected version and something looks off (new admin users, spam pages, redirects), run the free scan below.

The advisory

The Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 6.8.7 does not apply its administrator approval requirement to accounts registered through its email one-time-password flow, which could allow unauthenticated users to register and log in without being approved by an administrator when both features are enabled.

Description from the CVE record, published by WPScan (the CVE Numbering Authority), via the NVD entry for CVE-2026-110508.

References

NVD CVE-2026-110508 nvd.nist.gov
WPScan advisory wpscan.com

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Where this data comes from

CVE record, score and references: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
Versions and install counts: wordpress.org/plugins/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-01.
The summary, “what an attacker needs” and “what to do” sections are our plain-English reading of the record and the plugin's release history; the quoted description is the record's own text. Spot an error? Email Daniel.