CVE-2026-110509: Essential Addons for Elementor information disclosure vulnerability
medium 5.3 published 2026-10-28
- Affected versions
- older than 6.8.7
- Fixed in
- 6.8.7
- Latest version
- 6.8.8
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 5.3
- Active installs
- 1+ million
- Type
- Information disclosure
What an attacker needs
- Access: None. No account or login is needed.
CVSS vector (score by CISA ADP): CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/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 restrict the post type or meta query an unauthenticated visitor can pass to its pagination endpoint, which could allow them to read content of non-public post types and recover the values of private custom fields on published posts.
References
- NVD CVE-2026-110509 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.