Description

The Ultimate Addons for Elementor (Formerly Elementor Header & Footer Builder) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the save_hfe_compatibility_option_callback ()function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the compatibility option setting.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-08-02T09:23:31.864Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-08T17:13:07.895Z

Source :

Wordfence
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-8488 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Brainstormforce
  • Ultimate Addons For Elementor
Elementor
  • Elementor
Wordpress
  • Wordpress
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-8488.

URL Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/header-footer-elementor/tags/2.4.6/admin/class-hfe-addons-actions.php#L494 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/header-footer-elementor/tags/2.4.7/admin/class-hfe-addons-actions.php#L525 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a4b847b5-9deb-41c4-b976-725249e0098e?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
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