CVE-2026-97353: News Kit Addons For Elementor missing authorization check vulnerability

medium 5.4 published 2026-10-24 · updated 2026-10-26

Affected versions: 1.4.7 and older
Fixed in: 1.4.9 *
Latest version: 1.5.0
Severity: Medium · CVSS 5.4
Active installs: 3,000+
Type: Missing authorization check

* The source does not name a fixed version; this is the first wordpress.org release after the last affected version.

What an attacker needs

Access: A logged-in account with Subscriber-level access or higher.

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

What to do now

Update News Kit Addons For Elementor to 1.4.9 or newer (the latest is 1.5.0): 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 News Kit Addons For Elementor issue. With WP-CLI: wp plugin get news-kit-elementor-addons --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 News Kit Addons For Elementor WordPress plugin through 1.4.7 does not perform capability or ownership checks before updating post metadata in one of its authenticated AJAX actions, allowing users with subscriber-level access and above to write arbitrary post meta, under attacker-chosen keys, to any post including those owned by other users. This can be used to overwrite protected core metadata and tamper with content created by higher-privileged users.

Description from the CVE record, published by WPScan (the CVE Numbering Authority), via the NVD entry for CVE-2026-97353.

References

NVD CVE-2026-97353 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/news-kit-elementor-addons (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-04.
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.