CVE-2025-55712: Plus Addons for Elementor Auth Bypass Flaw

CVE-2025-55712 Overview

CVE-2025-55712 is a missing authorization vulnerability in the POSIMYTH The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder Lite WordPress plugin. The flaw affects all versions up to and including 6.3.13. Authenticated attackers with low privileges can exploit incorrectly configured access control checks to perform actions restricted to higher-privileged roles. The issue is categorized under [CWE-862] Missing Authorization.

Critical Impact

An authenticated attacker with low privileges can modify plugin-controlled resources over the network, compromising site integrity on WordPress installations running the affected plugin.

Affected Products

• POSIMYTH The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder Lite versions through 6.3.13
• WordPress sites with the plugin installed and enabled
• Elementor-based sites relying on the plugin's shortcode and widget features

Discovery Timeline

• 2025-08-14 - CVE-2025-55712 published to NVD
• 2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2025-55712

Vulnerability Analysis

The plugin exposes functionality that fails to verify whether the requesting user has the appropriate role or capability. WordPress plugins typically enforce authorization through current_user_can() checks and nonce validation. When these checks are missing or incorrectly configured, users with minimal privileges such as Subscriber or Contributor can invoke privileged operations. The attack requires only a valid low-privileged account and can be performed remotely. Successful exploitation compromises data integrity without directly leaking confidential information or crashing the service.

Root Cause

The root cause is a broken access control implementation within one or more of the plugin's action handlers. The code path executes sensitive operations without validating the caller's WordPress capability. This aligns with [CWE-862], where authorization logic is either absent or applied at an insufficient security level relative to the operation being performed.

Attack Vector

Exploitation occurs over the network against the WordPress admin-ajax or REST endpoints exposed by the plugin. The attacker authenticates as a low-privileged user, then sends crafted requests to the vulnerable handler. Because the handler does not enforce role or capability restrictions, the request executes with the effect of a higher-privileged action. Refer to the Patchstack Vulnerability Report for advisory details.

Detection Methods for CVE-2025-55712

Indicators of Compromise

• Unexpected changes to plugin settings, widget configurations, or Elementor templates made by low-privileged accounts.
• Requests to admin-ajax.php or plugin REST routes originating from Subscriber or Contributor sessions.
• Creation or modification of posts, options, or metadata attributable to users without the required capability.

Detection Strategies

• Audit WordPress activity logs for privileged actions performed by non-administrator accounts.
• Inspect web server access logs for anomalous POST requests targeting plugin action handlers.
• Compare current plugin file hashes and site content against known-good baselines to identify unauthorized modifications.

Monitoring Recommendations

• Enable a WordPress security or audit log plugin that records user role, capability checks, and action origin.
• Alert on failed and successful AJAX or REST calls to the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder endpoints from low-privileged users.
• Monitor administrator-level configuration changes and correlate them with session identity to detect privilege misuse.

How to Mitigate CVE-2025-55712

Immediate Actions Required

• Update The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder Lite to a version later than 6.3.13 as soon as the vendor releases a fixed build.
• Review all user accounts and remove or downgrade unnecessary Subscriber, Contributor, and Author accounts.
• Rotate credentials for any low-privileged accounts that may have been abused.

Patch Information

At the time of publication, the vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 6.3.13. Site operators should consult the Patchstack Vulnerability Report and the POSIMYTH plugin changelog for the fixed release. Apply the patched version through the WordPress plugin updater once available.

Workarounds

• Disable the plugin until a patched version is installed if the affected functionality is not required.
• Restrict user registration to trusted sources and disable open registration on public sites.
• Deploy a web application firewall rule to block unauthenticated and low-privileged requests to the plugin's action handlers.